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Prof. Franciska de Jong is a Full Professor of e-Research for the Humanities at Utrecht University's Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, part of the Faculty of Humanities. She previously served as Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC (2015-2022), the European research infrastructure for language resources, and now acts as a Senior Advisor there. Her research focuses on digital libraries, text mining, cross-language retrieval, and cultural heritage preservation. She holds a PhD in theoretical linguistics and has extensive industry experience at Philips Research (1985-1992).
She has held leadership roles in national organizations including the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the National Library of the Netherlands (KB), and currently chairs the NWO Advisory Committee for Digitalization Research. She is leading the Horizon Europe project EOSC Focus, addressing sustainability of the European Open Science Cloud. Her work spans interdisciplinary collaboration, policy development, and infrastructure governance in digital humanities and computational social sciences.
Education: Dutch Language & Literature (Utrecht University), PhD in Theoretical Linguistics.
Key Roles: Board member of Netherlands eScience Center (2014–2023), Chair of Lorentz Center's Computational Science Advisory Board (2016–2021), Steering Board member of Open Science-NL (2023–present).
Activities: Organized CLARIN Annual Conferences (2016–2019), Digital Humanities conferences, and workshops on parliamentary data analysis.
