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Eetu Mäkelä is a Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki, affiliated with the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH). He holds a Doctor of Science in Computer Science and a Title of Docent in Computer Science. He supervises doctoral programs in History and Cultural Heritage, and Theology and Religious Studies. His research focuses on computational methods applied to humanities, including text reuse analysis, historical discourse studies, and digital cultural heritage. He leads the Helsinki Computational History Group (COMHIS) and participates in projects like CASCADE (computational semantic change analysis) and HPC-HD (high-performance computing for historical discourse analysis).
Key research areas include computational analysis of historical texts, formulaic language in oral poetry, and linked open data applications in cultural heritage. Notable projects involve developing digital infrastructures for Finnic oral poetry and analyzing WWII data through linked open systems. Awards include the Best Paper Award at DHN 2020 and the Open Data Prize for the WarSampo system.
- Projects: CASCADE (EU Horizon Europe), HPC-HD (Academy of Finland), COMHIS (ongoing since 2018)
- Supervision: Doctoral programs in History, Cultural Heritage, and Theology
- Labs/Teams: Helsinki Computational History Group (COMHIS), leader of digital humanities initiatives
