Platform leaders and staff
Platform leaders
Kajsa Weber holds a PhD in History, is a member of LUCK (Lund University Center for the History of Knowledge), and Coordinator in the National Graduate School of History. Weber specializes in the history of the Reformation, early modern print media, and Lutheranism.
Marie Cronqvist is Associate Professor of Media History and Journalism, head of the Section for Media History, and the main co-ordinator of the European Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS) network. Her current research is focused on transnational broadcasting and journalism, and the history of media theories in Cold War psychological defence.
Pelle Snickars, is Professor of Digital Cultures, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. He is a media studies scholar with a contemporary and historical interest, mainly oriented towards digital cultural heritage and digital media history. He leads two research projects: Welfare State Analytics. Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & Culture, 1945-1989 and Modern Times 1936 – which both use digital methods to explore historical source material in new ways.
Research engineers
Mathias Johansson is research engineer at DigitalHistory@Lund. He has an MSc in Economic History and has worked for several years as a research assistant on the VINNOVA-funded SWINNO project, a database of Swedish innovations, 1970–2016. Johansson specializes in data mining, visualisation and deep learning methods.