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Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Trier, Germany; scientific Co-Director of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH) and co-editor of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS). Previously, he served as President of the German-speaking Digital Humanities Association (DHd, 2018-2022) and President of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO, 2023-2024). His research focuses on computational literary studies, with methodological emphasis on corpus design, data modeling, and quantitative text analysis, primarily applied to French literature from the 17th century to today. He is also interested in the intersection of law and digital humanities and advocates for open science. Schöch studied Romance languages, English, and psychology in Freiburg and Tours, completing a PhD in French literature in 2008, which won the Prix Germaine de Staël in 2010.

Adjunct Professor at Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi; CEO and co-founder of ISAGOG; former Manager of the Center for Advanced Studies at IBM. He designed intelligent systems combining generative techniques with knowledge representation and automated reasoning. His work bridges symbolic and neural approaches to create AI that is not only performant but also explainable and meaningful. Vetere holds a background in philosophy of language and theoretical computer science (mentored by Tullio De Mauro and Corrado Böhm at Università La Sapienza). He leads research and innovation in AI and collaborates with industrial and academic partners to introduce hybrid AI solutions in production, healthcare, and knowledge-intensive services.

Full Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Padua. Her main research interests include statistical analysis of textual data, quantitative linguistics, text mining, authorship attribution, diachronic corpora, chronological textual data, content analysis, and topic modeling. She has also worked on data collection tools for social research and statistical methods for evaluating university systems and political-institutional communication. Tuzzi teaches Text Mining, Social Research Methods, and Social Statistics at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels, and she is director of the Summer School IQLA-GIAT in quantitative text analysis. She has held visiting positions at universities in the USA, Qatar, Greece, and Germany and has been president of the International Quantitative Linguistics Association.