Project management & user interaction
Matthias van Rossum 
Project leader
International Institute for Social History
Contact page
Lodewijk Petram 
Project manager
Huygens Institute
Contact page
Melinda Susanto
Community & outreach manager
Huygens Institute
Technical infrastructure
Arno Bosse
Team lead
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Rutger van Koert
Developer – Handwritten text recognition
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Martijn Maas
Developer – Handwritten text recognition
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Stefan Klut
Developer – Handwritten text recognition
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Hennie Brugman
Developer – Text infrastructure
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Hayco de Jong
Developer – Text infrastructure
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Bram Buitendijk
Developer – Text infrastructure
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Hayco de Jong
Developer – Text infrastructure
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Sebastiaan van Daalen
Developer – Text infrastructure
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Menzo Windhouwer
Developer – Structured data
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Kerim Meijer
Developer – Structured data
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
QiQing Ding
Developer – Structured data
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Jarno Bakker
Developer – Structured data
KNAW Humanities Cluster, Digital infrastructure
Historical contextualisation
Manjusha Kuruppath
Team lead
Huygens Institute
Contact page
Brecht Nijman
Junior researcher
Huygens Institute
Kay Pepping
Junior researcher
Huygens Institute
Femke Brink
Research assistant
Huygens Institute
Dung Pham
Research assistant
Huygens Institute
Renate Smit
Research assistant
Huygens Institute
Semantic contextualisation
Leon van Wissen
Team lead
University of Amsterdam
Contact page
Sophie Arnoult
Postdoc – Natural language processing
VU University
Stella Verkijk
Developer – Natural language processing
VU University
Piek Vossen
Professor – Computational linguistics
VU University
Former team members
Ramin Ravansar
Intern, Historical contextualisation (June – October 2024)
Henrike Vellinga
Student assistant & Junior researcher, Historical contextualisation (June 2022 – August 2024)
Ruben Land
Intern & Student assistant, Historical contextualisation (February 2023 – August 2024)
Philippe Maillard
Student assistant, Historical contextualisation (November 2023 – August 2024)
Mrinalini Luthra
Data ethics specialist, Historical contextualization (February 2023 – June 2024), now working at the Combatting Bias project
Eva Otten
Intern, Project management & user interaction (February – June 2024)
Tanne van den Berg
Research assistant, Historical contextualisation (March 2023 – March 2024)
Merve Tosun
Coordinator user interaction and outreach, Project management & user interaction (January 2022 – January 2024)
Marc Widmer
Intern, Historical contextualisation (September 2023)
Sterre Berentzen
Research assistant, Historical contextualisation (September 2022 – February 2023)
Maartje Hids
Research assistant, Historical contextualisation (February 2022 – January 2023)
Andy Houwer
Intern, Historical contextualisation (September – December 2022)
Gerhard de Kok
Postdoc, Semantic contextualisation (February – August 2022)
Guest researchers
Mathijs Boom
Postdoc (History)
Utrecht University
Simon Kemper
Data scientist
Dutch National Archives
Gerhard de Kok
Postdoc (Maritime history; Digital methods)
Leiden University / Huygens Institute
Asawari Luthra
Unaffiliated Anthropologist