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        Date: 2026-06-09 08:52:34+00:00
        From: Marten DURING <marten.during@uni.lu>
        Subject: 3 Visiting Fellowships in Computational Humanities in the Impresso Project

Dear all,

we are happy to announce another opportunity to join the LU-based Impresso team:
applications are now open for 3 fully funded Visiting Fellowships to explore,
enrich, and innovate with the Impresso infrastructure.


All the best,
Marten


Location: Luxembourg-based team (C2DH / Impresso Project)
Duration: 3 months
Benefits: Covered costs for travel, housing, and a daily allowance
Fellowship Period: 1st August 2026 – 31st May 2027
Application Deadline: 1st July 2026


About the Project

Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past II. Beyond Borders: Connecting
Historical Newspapers and Radio <https://impresso-project.ch/> is an
interdisciplinary research project that leverages an unprecedented corpus of
newspaper and radio archives, and uses machine learning to pursue a paradigm
shift in the processing, semantic enrichment, representation, exploration and
study of historical newspaper and radio collections across modalities, time,
languages, and national borders.

Impresso has the objective to innovate historical research practices through
original research and through the design and development of novel interfaces to
access enriched and semantically linked data across languages and modalities.

Since the start of the project in September 2023, our efforts to build the
corpus, develop interfaces for programmatic access have reached a mature level:
Via the Impresso Datalab (https://impresso-project.ch/datalab) users can e.g.
obtain data from several European institutions based on their user status and
choose from a variety of pre-produced and well documented Jupyter notebooks to
explore and enrich data via API and the Impresso Python library.

Impresso is carried out by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital
history (C2DH)<http://c2dh.uni.lu/> and Swiss partners DHLAB at the École
polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)<http://dhlab.epfl.ch/>, the University
of Lausanne’s History department, the University of Zürich’s Institute for
Computational Linguistics<http://www.cl.uzh.ch/de.html>. The project is funded
by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Luxembourg National
Research Fund (FNR).


About the Fellowship

At this stage in the project, we want to ensure the real-world utility of our
resources and to make adjustments as needed. We are therefore looking for
excellent scholars with established research objectives to join the project and
apply their workflows to our data and infrastructure. Foreseen are scholars at
either postdoc or professor level.
Each fellow is expected to conduct research in their domain using Impresso
infrastructure and data with the following expected output:

  *   Test and provide feedback regarding the utility of the Impresso
infrastructure with particular focus on the Impresso Datalab platform for
programmatic access to Impresso data.
  *   Identify and showcase novel use cases that can be realized with our
infrastructure demonstrated via a Jupyter notebook, for example using embeddings
to link external collections to the Impresso corpus across languages and
modalities (text, image).
  *   Presentation of findings in a (conference) publication.


Your Profile

  *   Demonstrable experience in humanities research using computational methods
  *   PhD in history or a related field or, alternatively a PhD in computer
science with experience in conducting historical research
  *   Great communication skills, willingness to work as part of a team
  *   Strong organizational and project management skills, with a proven ability
to meet deadlines.
  *   Fluency in English is required; knowledge of French, German and/or Dutch
are considered an asset.


Advantageous are:

  *   Knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python
  *   Knowledge of machine learning, more specifically representation learning
  *   Knowledge of current debates in media history
  *   Experience in working with data derived from historical newspaper and
radio collections


The candidate will be based in the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and
Digital History (C2DH), a research centre for the study, analysis and public
dissemination of contemporary history of Luxembourg and Europe with a particular
focus on digital methods and tools for historical research. It serves as a
catalyst for innovative and creative scholarship and new forms of public
dissemination and societal engagement with history in Luxembourg.


How to Apply

Please submit your application in English to Guillaume Grotz
(guillaume.grotz@uni.lu<mailto:guillaume.grotz@uni.lu>). Application consists of
a cover letter and a CV. Cover letters should explain your motivation to apply
and include a project outline (300 words) which can be realised using the
Impresso Datalab infrastructure.


For any questions regarding the visiting fellowships, please contact Asst. Prof.
Marten Düring (marten.during@uni.lu<mailto:marten.during@uni.lu>).
Asst.-Prof. / Senior Research Scientist Dr. Marten Düring
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
BELVAL CAMPUS



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