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Associate professor in Human Sciences–Computing Interaction, University of Helsinki,
Technological director at the DARIAH-FI infrastructure for computational humanities,
Research programme director at the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities,
Docent (Adjunct Professor) in Computer Science, Aalto University

Short bio

Eetu Mäkelä is a tenure-track associate professor in 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. Additionally, he serves as a technological director at the DARIAH-FI infrastructure for computational humanities and is one of three research programme directors in the datafication research initiative of the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities.

For his work, he has obtained a total of 19 awards, including multiple best paper awards in conferences and journals, as well as multiple open data and open science awards. He also has a proven track record in creating systems fit for continued use by their audience. For example, tools developed with University of Oxford humanities scholars in 2014 continue to be used there, while the Finnish public libraries still use infrastructure created in 2010.

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