Fragments of Cultural Change.

I’m a senior researcher and head of the Ethnology & Oral Culture research group at the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Computational Methods for the Study of Cultural Change at Utrecht University. My research addresses questions about how culture spreads, develops, and disappears, drawing on computational and quantitative methods from ecology, population genetics, and machine learning, with particular attention to methodological challenges in analyzing biased historical collections and measuring cultural diversity and loss.