Andreas Weber is an associate professor in the research group Knowledge, Transformation & Society (KiTeS). His research and teaching examine the relationship between Science, Technoloy and Society from a long-term historical and global perspective. Andreas has a special interest in colonial histories of natural history, chemistry and sustainability. This includes research into how computational technologies are and can be used to contextualize digitized archives and collections (e.g. biodiversity heritage collections). Andreas is daily board member and WP2 co-lead of HAICu (digital Humanities - Artificial Intelligence - Cultural heritage, 2023-2029), a large and multi-annual project in the field of digital cultural heritage. 

Biographical note:
Andreas holds an MA (2005) and PhD degree (2012) in History, both from Leiden University. After years as postdoc at the University of Twente and at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia (2015-2016), Andreas was appointed as Assistant professor at the University of Twente in 2017. In 2023, he was promoted to Associate professor.

Areas of interest:

• digital cultural & natural heritage collections
• digital humanism & AI
• colonial histories of science & technology
• global histories of minerals, metals and sustainability

Andreas has developed and taught courses on Dutch (colonial) history, history of science in colonial and global context, Introduction to STS, and the long-term development of science and technology at the Universities of Enschede and Leiden. From 2019 to 2024, Andreas has also developed and coordinated STS PhD training for WTMC - the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture. From 2017 to 2019, he was also course director of the international summer course Technology & Society, which took place in the context of the Twente Summer School CuriousU. Currently he is also (co-)supervising various PhD and Postdoc projects.