Adriano Comissoli is adjunct professor at Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, working at the Department of History since 2016. His research includes the Portuguese and Spanish empire in the 18th and early 19th centuries, their institutions, elites and ruling systems. His current research focuses on intelligence systems and espionage in South America and algo on maritime predation. He completed his PhD in 2011 at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

Beata Możejko, Director of Memling Research Center, University of Gdansk (Poland),  Full Professor of History, specializes in medieval history and the auxiliary sciences of history.

Member of the Editorial Committee [PL: Komitet Wiedzy] of the Gdańsk Encyclopedia (Gedanopedia); One of her main research topics is maritime issues related to Gdańsk and other Hanseatic cities in the Middle Ages. She also conducts interdisciplinary research – crops in maritime Gdańsk – in cooperation with the Faculty of Biology of the University of Gdańsk and wrecks from the Bay of Gdańsk in cooperation with the National Maritime Museum. Author: 150 articles and seven monographs for example, Peter von Danzig: The Story of a Great Caravel, 1462-1475, Northern World, nr 86, 2020, Brill.

 

Clodomir Santana is a postdoctoral researcher at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. His current work explores hidden narratives within approximately 170,000 official correspondence documents spanning nearly two centuries of the Atlantic Portuguese Empire's history. Prior to his current position, Clodomir earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Exeter, UK, where he focused on exploring the social dynamics of nature-inspired computer algorithms through the lens of network science. His research interests include digital history, metaheuristics, network science, human dynamics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

 

Eduardo Sartoretto is a Doctoral Student in The Anthropos Doctoral School, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds a master's degree in History from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), in Brazil. He is a history teacher in Brazilian public education, and a researcher in Social History, Political History, American History, Maritime History and Atlantic History, from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, especially the period relating to Latin-American independence. His master's thesis deals with the process of independence of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, focusing on the use, participation, action, and organization of privateers during the wars of independence. His current research focuses on understanding the organization, thoughts and actions of sailors and marines in the Portuguese merchant navy during the Age of Revolutions.

 

Jay Mok is currently a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. Originally from Hong Kong, Jay has worked with the University of Hong Kong between 2016 to 2023 on projects related to digital communication, cultural heritage, and maritime culture. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, she co-led undergraduate fieldworks to various part of mainland China, including but not limited to Tibet (Lhasa, Shigatse, and Dingri regions/Everest Basecamp), Xinjiang (Turpan, Urumqi), Yunnan (Zhongdian/Lisu, Burma-China border regions), Sichuan and nearby autonomous regions (Garzê, Ngawa/Aba, Zoigê/Yellow River upper-turn), to understand our relationship with waters. 

 

John Freeman is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, working with the Warsaw Centre for Global History. His research concerns the networks which facilitated

eastern Baltic encounters and interactions with the early modern colonial Atlantic Ocean. He is particularly interested in the Duchy of Courland and its attempts at colonial expansion from the Baltic to the Caribbean and Western Africa in the seventeenth century. He completed his PhD in 2021 at the University of Cambridge before working on the Baltic Sea programme at the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Research in Greifswald, Germany.

 

Pankoj Sarkar is working at the University of Warsaw. Broadly, his area of research interest is science and society, particularly the history of environment, agriculture, and maritime and  also teaches a course on science and society. Previously he was a fellow at the German Maritime Museum—Leibniz Institute for Maritime History and before Joining Leibniz Institute for Maritime History, he completed PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. Currently, he is working on the monograph based on his PhD thesis. The tentative title of the monograph is—The Emergence of Agricultural Science, Scientist and Knowledge in Colonial India. His current research focus is on understanding the evolution of environmental science and knowledge production in the Indian Ocean world, especially from the mid-19th century onwards. 

 

DIGITAL EXPERTS:

 

Piotr Jaskulski holds a Master's degree in Archaeology (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw) and is a passionate programmer and data scientist. He has worked both at the National Archaeological Museum in Warsaw and at large IT companies such as Asseco. He is currently working in the Digital History Laboratory of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences on the application of natural language processing methods in historical research, handwriting text recognition and knowledge databases (wikibase)

 

Jan Wieczorek, ex Wrocław University of Science and Technology / CLARIN-PL (Temporarily freelance researcher in several projects at IH PAN, IBL PAN, NCN)

Linguist (graduated from the University of Wrocław), ex member of the Artificial Intelligence Department of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, util april 2024 was involved in CLARIN-PL - a pan-European research infrastructure that provides digital language resources and tools for processing large collections of texts in Polish.  At CLARIN-PL, he served as a linguistics expert and user involvement officer - the person responsible for contacts with researchers. He is also involved in the work of the DARIAH consortium and research activities in digital humanities and digital social sciences. He is particularly interested in the use of tools for topic or stylometric analysis of texts and also in the field of open research data.

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Adam Zapała - Ph.D., head of the Digital History Lab at the Department of Historical Atlas of the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the history of Polish relations with the Apostolic See in the second half of the 15th century, as well as the use of digital tools in historical research. He was the principle investigator of "Digital Research Infrastructure for the Humanities and Arts – DARIAH-PL" at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is also a staff member at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the Catholic University of Lublin.