Elena FERNANDEZ FERNANDEZ

Current position

Post-Doctoral researcher working at the Deep Data Science of Digital History (Deep Data Science of Digital History – Deep Data Science of Digital History). Member of the C²DH “Digital History & Historiography” research group.

Research

Post-Doctoral researcher working at the intersection of Digital Humanities, Computational Social Science, and Media and Communication Studies, focusing on the Computational Analysis of Modernity.

Principal Investigator of Marie Curie (GLOTECH) and Eurotech (PRESSTECH) Post-Doctoral grants. Both projects investigated topics related to Science and Technology in Society (STS), and Processes of Globalization using computational methods and a dataset of multilingual historic and contemporary newspapers.

Single author of a published research monograph (Raza y nación. Estereotipos nacionales extranjeros y peninsulares en España (1750-1833). Peter Lang, 2020) and a variety of peer-reviewed research articles (both single-authored and co-authored with colleagues across different disciplines).

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Teaching

Extensive teaching experience as a Data Science lecturer at the University of Zurich IT-Central. Courses taught as lead instructor include: “Python Basics”, “Python: for the Digital Humanities”, and “Python: Data Analysis Essentials”.

Academic supervision experience at the level of Master Thesis, and Master and Bachelor semester projects of students with interdisciplinary backgrounds.

At the C²DH, responsible for academic supervision and coordination of 18 PhD students coming from Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Engineering Departments and Faculties.

Outreach

Participation on several outreach activities such as giving talks targeting academic, public policy stakeholders, and civil society audiences, and writing two press releases in European Commission publication services (CORDIS. EU Research Results andMarie Curie Alumni Association Newsletter).

Work experience

Post-Doctoral Researcher. CD2H, University of Luxembourg (2026, ongoing).
Data Science Lecturer. University of Zurich (2023, ongoing).
Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Researcher. University of Zurich (2021-2023).
Eurotech Post-Doctoral Researcher. Technical University of Munich (2019-2021).
PhD student. University of California, Berkeley (2013-2019).

Educational background

Background in Cultural Studies (PhD Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley, 2019; M.A. Spanish Studies, University of Virginia, 2013), and Philology (English Philology, University of Salamanca, 2011). Training in Data Science.