Team
Formerly part of Paris Observatory engineering team from April 2019 to December 2024, Ségolène Albouy now contributes to the development of the EIDA platform and implementing Computer Vision algorithms for automated astronomic source analysis.
Andriani Eleonora
CNRS | Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes
Scientific director
Eleonora Andriani, Scientific Director of PATHS (ERC Starting 2023, ANR), develops innovative philological approaches to Latin texts on the history of astral sciences (13th-15th centuries). Her research is supported by tools from DISHAS, EIDA, and SegmOnto, alongside eScriptorium, to perform image-based textual criticism focused on the visual elements of texts.
Fouad Aouinti has been part of the VHS team since April 2022. He contributes to the development of the platform and the implementation of computer vision algorithms for the historical analysis of scientific illustration circulation.
Mathieu Aubry is interested in computer vision with a focus on unsupervised image collection analysis (ERC DISCOVER), and applications to historical data (also ANR EnHerit and ANR VHS and ANR EIDA) and Earth imagery analysis.
Hamid Bohloul
Independent Scholar
Scientific collaborator
Hamid Bohloul has been a scientific collaborator of EIDA since 2023. The principal area of his contribution to the project has been his expertise in astronomical writings and instruments in Arabic and Persian manuscript sources.
Clément Cartier is a PhD candidate in history and philosophy of mathematics and astronomy. He is interested in computation procedures in astronomy, and intends to contribute to the EIDA project around the topic of eclipse instruments.
Chen Ji 纪辰
University of Science and Technology of China
Scientific collaborator
Ji Chen has been a scientific collaborator of EIDA since 2023. She contributes to the project with her extensive expertise of astronomical sources in Chinese.
Christopher Cullen is Emeritus Director of the Needham Research Institute (Cambridge, UK). After working on the history of astronomy in early imperial China, he now studies the early modern period. He presently works on controversies on astronomy in Beijing in the middle to late 17th century.
Samuel Gessner is an assistant researcher at the Center for History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) and an invited professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the Universidade de Lisboa. His research focuses on the diverse mathematical cultures in medieval and early modern Europe.
Clara Grometto joined the EIDA project in April 2024 and contributed to the development of the platform by implementing algorithms for vectorizing illustrations. She is interested in exploring the impact of the web, open data initiatives, and digital technologies on heritage objects valorization and research methodologies.
Matthieu Husson is PI of EIDA. Scientifically, he contributes to the project with his expertise of astronomical sources in Latin. He is taking also part in the the conception of the data model and contributes diagrams data sets especially around Theorica planetarum texts.
Catherine Jami is a Senior Researcher at CNRS. Her research focuses on the circulation of knowledge, especially of mathematics, between Europe and China in the 17th and 18th centuries. Her current projects include a study of controversies on astronomy in Beijing in the middle to late 17th century.
Stephen Johnston is a curator and historian of European mathematical arts and sciences at Oxford’s History of Science Museum. He is currently working on the design, transmission and materiality of astronomical and astrological instruments across various media, from brass to parchment and printed paper.
Kremer Richard L.
Dartmouth | Department of History
Scientific collaborator
Divna Manolova is Fellow of Paris Region Fellowship Program supported by the Paris Region. She is working on DyAs, a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement n°945298-ParisRegionFP.
Anuj Misra is a historian and philosopher of mathematics specializing in the study of pre-modern Islamicate and Sanskrit astronomy. He has been a part of various research projects at the Paris Observatory and continues to contributes with his expertise on astronomical diagrams in early-modern Sanskrit sources.
Clemency Montelle has been part of various research collaborations with the Paris Observatory team for the last decade. Scientifically, she contributes with an extensive expertise on astronomical diagrams in Sanskrit sources.
Jade Norindr has been part of the EIDA team since April 2023. As a digital project manager, she supervises the development of platforms and tools to assist researchers in their work. She is interested in computer vision applied to art history.
Rodríguez-Arribas Josefina
Polish Academy of Sciences
Scientific collaborator
Rodríguez-Arribas is a Marie Curie Fellow at the IHN PAN. The core of her research is the intellectual history of Jews with a focus on scientific manuscripts and pre-modern and early modern science and technology: she is contributing her expertise in Hebrew manuscripts.
Skoura Ioanna
Independant Scholar
Scientific collaborator
Ioanna Skoura is a historian of Greek Science. Scientifically, she contributes with an extensive expertise in Greek sources.
Scott Trigg is a historian of Islamicate science and has been part of the Paris Observatory team since October 2021. He is contributing to the project with his expertise in Islamicate astronomical sources, especially diagram data sets from works of ʿilm al-hayʾa.
Alexandre Werlen is a second-year student of CPES-PSL-Henri IV in mathematics and economics. He has been part of EIDA since November 2023. As an intern, he contributes to the mission of the DH team. He enjoys exploring how science can contribute to understanding history.
Stefan is a Research Associate at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« and a postdoc at the Department for Cultural History and Theory, both at Humboldt University Berlin. Within the EIDA project he is especially interested in the transmission of geometrical diagrams of Ptolemy’s Almagest in Greek, Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew manuscript witnesses.
Manelle Zilaf has been part of the EIDA team since November 2023. As an intern, she contributes to the DH team’s missions. She is a second-year student of CPES PSL-Henri IV in mathematics and physics. She is interested in the intersections between science and history.