People

Eetu Mäkelä is a tenure track assistant professor of Human Sciences – Computing Interaction at the University of Helsinki and a docent (adjunct professor) in computer science at Aalto University. At the Hel­sinki Centre for Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies, he leads a research group that seeks to figure out the technological, processual and theoretical underpinnings of successful computational research in the humanities and social sciences. His interests lie in exploring the challenges complex human data and questions pose for computational algorithms, workflows and tools. These are also the questions he engages with in his work with the computational history group.

Website: http://iki.fi/eetu.makela
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jiemakel
Email: eetu.makela@helsinki.fi

Jani Marjanen is a historian and docent at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki, focusing on political history. He specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century patriotism, the theory and method of conceptual history, and the development of public discourse. In the Helsinki Computational History Group he works on the analysis of public discourse through quantitative and qualitative analysis of metadata and historical language.

Website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/jani-marjanen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/janimarjanen 
Email: jani.marjanen@helsinki.fi

Tanja Säily is assistant professor in English Language at the University of Helsinki, a member of the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG) and the Helsinki Computational History Group (COMHIS), and a co­-compiler of the Corpora of Early English Correspondence (CEEC). Her research interests include corpus linguistics, digital humanities, historical sociolinguistics, English lexis and morphology. She is particularly interested in multidisciplinary collaboration on developing tools and methods for the study of language variation and change in its sociocultural contexts.

Website: https://tanjasaily.fi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TanjaSaily
Email: tanja.saily@helsinki.fi

Maciej Janicki is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki. He is also part of the Human Science - Computing Interaction group. He has obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Leipzig, Germany and his background is in language technology.

Website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/maciej-michal-janicki
Email: maciej.janicki@helsinki.fi

Risto Turunen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki, as well as National Coordinator for DARIAH-FI, Finland’s digital humanities research infrastructure. In his research, he is specialising in data-intensive approaches to modern political languages. He was awarded his doctorate in History at Tampere University in 2021.

Website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/risto-juhani-turunen
Email: risto.turunen@helsinki.fi

Kira Hinderks is a doctoral researcher in digital humanities at the University of Helsinki.

Website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kira-sophie-hinderks
Email: kira.hinderks@helsinki.fi

David Rosson is a doctoral researcher and technical assistant at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. 

Website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/david-elliot-rosson
Email: david.rosson@helsinki.fi

Ruilin Wang is a research assistant at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki.

Email: ruilin.wang@helsinki.fi

Lidia Pivovarova is a docent at the Department of Computer Science and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. Her work includes themes of linguistic discourse, semantic changes and more.

Website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/lidia-pivovarova
Email: lidia.pivovarova@helsinki.fi
 

Lassi Saario is a doctoral researcher in Theoretical Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. He is writing his dissertation on the history of the concept of logical consequence, partly based on the Early English Books Online and the Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Website: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/lassi-saario
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lassisaario
Email: lassi.saario@helsinki.fi

Yann Ryan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. He works at the intersection of literary history, specifically modern news, and data science. He’s currently working on the ‘Rise of Commercial Society and Eighteenth-century Publishing’ project.

Website: https://yann-ryan.github.io/
Email: yann.ryan@helsinki.fi

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