Team
Dr Karina Rodriguez Echavarria.
Professor, University of Brighton.
Karina is an interdisciplinary researcher, with a background in Computer Science, a PhD in knowledge-based engineering and an MA in Histories and Cultures. Her research interests include the development and application of computing technologies for the digitisation of objects and environments; the information management, analysis, search/browse visualisation of visual representations, including 2D and 3D content; as well as their physical reproduction using digital fabrication. A focus of the research is the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector and its related applications such as creative applications, art, culture, education and tourism. She has produced research outputs in interdisciplinary areas such as computer graphics, information and knowledge management as well as cultural heritage. She co-leads the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research Excellence Group which focuses on both theoretical and practical research in computer science challenges related to software systems, leading on the provision of digitisation and visualisation technologies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, and chairs the Eurographics Workshops Board and the Eurographics Steering Committee on Graphics and Cultural Heritage which organises yearly workshops in this area.
Prof Ketankumar Vadodaria.
Associate Senior Faculty, National Institute of Design, India
Ketan did his bachelors and postgraduation in textile engineering from M.S. University of Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Post which he pursued Ph.D. on Smart and functional textile from School of textiles and design in The Research Institute for Flexible Materials (RiFLEX), The school of textiles and design, Heriot-watt university, U.K.. Prior joining to NID, he worked in production, quality assurance, technical services in various textile sectors such as spinning, denim / grey fabric manufacturing, and home textiles. He also worked as researcher / scientist at different National level R & D textiles research associations such as ATIRA (Ahmedabad Textile Industries Research Association), MANTRA (Manmade Textile Research Association) and SITRA (The South India Textile Research Association).
Dr Claire Wintle.
Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton
Dr Claire Wintle is a Principal Lecturer in Museum Studies and Design History. Her work explores the relationship between objects, images and processes of nationalism, imperialism and decolonisation. Several of her publications have focused on the histories of design in India, and colonial and neocolonial models of craft ‘development’. Claire is Director of the University’s Centre for Design History where she leads research, including on sustainable cultures of design in global and transnational contexts. She established the University of Brighton’s MA Curating Collections and Heritage, a collaborative masters programme developed with Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove. Her teaching focuses on the ethics of contemporary museum and heritage practice, with an emphasis on utilising arts and heritage for social change.
Prof Tim Weyrich.
Professor of Visual Computing, University College London (UK) and FAU (Germany)
Tim Weyrich holds the chair of Digital Reality at FAU‘s department of computer science and is a associate member of the FAU department for digital humanities and social studies. In addition, he retains a part-time assignment as Professor of Visual Computing in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL), a position he originally held until 2021, after coming to UCL in 2008. In an earlier life, he was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Princeton University, working in the Princeton Computer Graphics Group, a post he took after having received his PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2006. His research interests include content creation, computational photography, appearance modelling and fabrication, point-based graphics, cultural heritage analysis and digital humanities.
Prof Charmi Patel.
Chair and Professor, University of Dundee
Professor in Strategic and International Human Resource Management and Director of Executive Education at the University of Dundee School of Business, her work sits at the intersection of organizational behavior, human resource management, and international business strategy. She is committed to advancing interdisciplinary research and recommending thought leadership on key topics such as employee health, well-being, talent development, leadership, organisational change, future of work and DEI. My focus is on delivering insights that are both academically rigorous and practically impactful.