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Prof. Dr. Franciska de Jong is a Full Professor of e-Research for the Humanities at Utrecht University's Department of Languages, Literature and Communication. She serves as senior advisor to CLARIN ERIC, Europe's language resources infrastructure, following her tenure as its Executive Director (2015-2022). Her career includes roles as Full Professor of Language Technology at the University of Twente (1992-2022) and affiliations with Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has led national and international initiatives including the Dutch 'Driven by Data' program and Horizon Europe's EOSC Focus project.
- Key roles: CLARIN ERIC Senior Advisor
- NWO Standing Committee Member (2018-present)
- Open Science-NL Steering Board (2023-present)
Education: PhD Theoretical Linguistics (Utrecht University), MA Dutch Language & Literature. Early career included machine translation work at Philips Research. Research focuses on digital libraries, cultural heritage digitization, text mining, and cross-language retrieval systems.
Recent projects emphasize FAIR data principles, open science infrastructure, and sustainability of the European Open Science Cloud. Active in governance bodies like Netherlands eScience Center (2014-2023) and Lorentz Center's Computational Science Advisory Board (2016-2021).
