Our team

Our European Parliament team is a group of students and researchers competent in computer science, political science, linguistic, media studies. We are from Finland, Germany, Russia, Croatia, Austria.

Aleksandra Konovalova

I have graduated from Saint Petersburg State University with MA in Applied Linguistics and worked for 2 years as a Linguist. My main goal is to understand and to learn how to use my skills more effectively in the field of Digital Humanities and to continue work in this field.

Daria Ustyuzhanina

I am a senior lecturer in the department of journalism and literary studies of Siberian federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. I also work on my PhD thesis on social creativity in the online sphere. My research interests include such topics as media, education, data visualization in journalism.

Ellimaija Tanskanen

I did my bachelor’s degree at the university of Helsinki majoring in French language studies and I am starting a master’s degree in communications. My interest in cross-disciplinarity and digital methods applied to languages and humanities led me to the hackathon. My goal is to learn more about different research methods and working in a pluridisciplinary team on a research project.

Gabrielle Mantell

I am a master’s student in European and Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki. My current research focuses on the use of computational and memetic propaganda within the context of global politics. I hold a MA in Science and Security from King’s College London and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College. I have also worked in the tech industry as a UX researcher, focusing on human-computer interaction. My research interests include computational international relations, machine learning and geopolitics.

Gerlinde Theunissen

I am a Erasmus Mundus Master student in Public Policy, Political Economy and Development Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the IBEI in Barcelona. My background is in Political Science and Public Administration at the University Konstanz and the University Leiden and my current interest is in social policies, socio-economic inequalities, gender inequality, border studies and migration. Curious about comparative social research methods brought me to the Hackathon and I am eager to explore various methods to analyse political speeches and debates.

Iuliia Nikolaenko

I work as a trainee in Digital Russia Studies network and I’m an exchange student in the University of Helsinki Social Sciences Faculty. I currently study in Master’s program “Comparative Social Research” at Higher School of Economics, Moscow. My research interests implement such topics as media, ideology, mechanisms of social opinion forming and computational linguistics.

Stefan Hechl

I am an MA student in contemporary history at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), currently working on my thesis on Austrian nation building in historical newspapers. Since 2018, I have been working in the H2020 project NewsEye, which is attempting to improve access to digitised newspaper archives across Europe. This was my first contact with digital humanities and led to my interest in the Helsinki Hackathon. My main goal is to learn more about methods of digital humanities and data science and to share my knowledge of humanities research with people working in computer science.

Suhas Thejaswi

I am a computer science PhD Student at Aalto University. My research work involve design and analysis of algorithms for its complexity, scalability and parallelization potential, furthermore applying these algorithms for large-scale data analysis. I am curious to explore how to apply theoretical methodologies for the analysis of political debates and its applications in digital humanities.

Team leaders

Fredrik Norén

Fredrik Norén is PhD in media and communication and work as a first assistant researcher at Humlab, the center for digital humanities at Umeå University. In his dissertation ”The Future Belongs to the Information Officers”: The Formation of Governmental Information in Sweden 1965–1975 (2019) Norén investigated how governmental information was debated and practiced in the borderland between different societal spheres. His research is primarily focused on media historical perspectives on governmental communication, and on the use of digital methods to analyze large-scale text collections. Recent publications include ”Distant reading the history of Swedish film politics in 4500 governmental SOU reports” (Scandinavian Journal of Cinema, 2017) and ”Urban catastrophe and sheltered salvation: The media system of Swedish civil defence, 1937–1960” (Media History, 2018). He is currently part of a large scale text analysis project called Welfare State Analytics that will analyze the Swedish society 1945–1990 through massive text collections connected to politics, media an culture.

One Reply to “Our team”

  1. I am zafar ullah working on Voyant tools and DH. I wish to be part of your DH projects. I have linguistics and DH background and pursuing my phd.

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