Andreas Weber

Andreas Weber is an Associate Professor at the University of Twente. He is also affiliated with the Bernoulli Institute at the University of Groningen as a guest researcher. As a historian, Andreas researches the relationship between science, technology, and environment from a long-term historical and global perspective. He has a special interest in colonial histories of science and technology (with a focus on natural history, chemistry, and sustainability) in insular Southeast Asia and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a digital humanist, he researches how computational technologies (in particular AI-related technologies) can be used to enrich and contextualize digitized archives and other multimodal cultural and natural-heritage collections. He is also PI of HAICu (Digital Humanities–Artificial Intelligence–Cultural Heritage, 2024–31), a large and multi-annual research consortium (NWO-NWA) in the field of digital humanities. In addition, Andreas is part of the steering group of the 4TU.History of Technology center in the Netherlands and a member of the scientific advisory board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the German Maritime Museum (DSM) in Bremerhaven.