Seamus Ross

Seamus Ross is a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto. He served as Dean from 2009-2015 and previously held leadership roles at the University of Glasgow, including Professor of Humanities Informatics and Founding Director of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII). His professional history includes roles with the Digital Curation Centre (2004–2009) and ERPANET/DigitalPreservationEurope (2001–2009).

• Education: AB from Vassar College, MA from University of Pennsylvania, DPhil from University of Oxford
• Research Focus: Digital preservation, cultural heritage informatics, digital archaeology, semantic extraction, and genre classification

Key contributions include foundational work on digital preservation frameworks, co-authoring seminal studies on digital archaeology and forensic storage formats, and promoting open access through initiatives like the Digiman Series. He has led major EU-funded projects including DELOS, Planets, and Digicult Forum since the early 1980s.