Dr. Anna Cappellotto is a post-doctoral research fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Verona. At the same institution she has been recently awarded a PhD in Medieval Philology and her thesis deals with the edition of a Middle High German translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Dr. Wout Dillen is a postdoctoral researcher working at the University of Antwerp as the coordinator of the Antwerp division of the DARIAH-VL consortium of DARIAH-BE. In 2015 he defended a Ph.D. thesis on 'Digital Scholarly Editing for the Genetic Orientation.' For this project he also developed the online Lexicon of Scholarly Editing , initiated by Dirk van Hulle.
Dr. Franz Fischer is coordinator and researcher at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne. He studied History, Latin and Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre's treatise on liturgy.
Dr. Elena Spadini is a researcher in digital humanities at at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. She holds a Ph.D. in romance philology from Sapienza Università di Roma. Her research pursues digital scholarly editing, as regards the scientific and technical aspects, and includes medieval literature, the history of textual criticism and the history of digital humanities. She wrote on digital editing tools, automatic collation, the textual transmission of Arthurian old-French literature.
Prof. dr. Dirk van Hulle, professor of English literature at the University of Antwerp and director of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, recently edited the new Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (2015). With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org) and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies.
Dr. Peter Boot is a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. He studied mathematics and Dutch literature and wrote a thesis about electronic annotation in digital editions.
Aodhán Kelly is a PhD student at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp and one of the Early Stage Researchers within the DiXiT Network. His doctoral research is on the dissemination of digital scholarly editions to broader audiences. Aodhán holds a BA in History and Economics as well as an MLitt in History from Maynooth University in Ireland and worked for several years in digital publishing in the UK.
Anna-Maria Sichani is a researcher in Modern Greek Literary Studies and Digital Humanities. She is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher affiliated with DiXiT, based at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and she is finishing her PhD at University of Ioannina (Greece).
Andreas Mertgens is a research associate at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne. He studied English and American Studies (B.A.) and Scholarly Editing and Documentology (M.A.) at the University of Wuppertal.