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Xander Vertegaal is a Researcher at the Centre for Digital Humanities (Utrecht University), where he serves as an Infrastructure and Application Manager in the Faculty of Humanities’s Humanities IT department. His work bridges the Research Software Lab and the Portal Development Team, focusing on building digital tools and web portals for academic and humanities research.
- Education:
- Bachelor’s in Classical Languages (summa cum laude), Radboud University Nijmegen
- Research Master’s in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (summa cum laude), Leiden University
- PhD in Historical Phonology of Anatolian Languages, Leiden University (2020), supervised by Prof. Dr. Alwin Kloekhorst and Prof. Dr. Alexander Lubotsky
Xander’s research interests emphasize the integration of digital tools into humanities scholarship, particularly through software and database development. His technical expertise includes Python/Django, TypeScript/Angular, and web frameworks. He also provides consultation for research software projects and grant applications with digital components.
He has transitioned from postdoctoral research roles to full-stack development, applying his academic background in linguistics to practical web application design and data visualization for scholarly communities.
