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Andreas Weber is an Associate Professor at the University of Twente's Digital Society Institute, specializing in the Knowledge, Transformation & Society (KiTeS) research group. His work examines the long-term historical and global relationship between Science, Technology, and Society, with particular focus on colonial histories of natural history, chemistry, and sustainability, as well as computational technologies for contextualizing digitized archives. He leads the HAICu project (2023–2029) on digital cultural heritage and coordinates STS PhD training for the Netherlands Graduate Research School (2019–2024).
- MA & PhD in History (2005 & 2012), Leiden University
- Assistant Professor (2017–2023), University of Twente
Andreas' research integrates digital humanities with colonial science history, emphasizing global histories of minerals, digital humanism, and AI's societal context. His 15 most recent publications (2016–2025) explore topics like colonial bias in natural history collections, FAIR data implementation, and semantic annotation of handwritten archives, spanning disciplines from history of science to computer science and museum studies. He has received 7 scientific awards, including multiple Best Teacher Awards (2020–2023) and the IEEE eScience Best Poster Award (2018). Andreas supervises PhD and postdoctoral projects while engaging in media commentary on colonial heritage issues and co-organizing international conferences like Hydrogen Pasts and Futures (2024).
