Tobias is tenure track assistant professor in digital humanities at the University of Bern since 2019. He researches and teaches machine learning methods in and for the humanities. This includes the automated recognition of historical manuscripts, the extraction of information and the development of specific language models. Hodel holds a doctorate in history and leads research projects at the University of Bern, including on the tower books of the city of Bern from the early modern period, chat systems for university didactics in the 21st century and the historical telephone directories of Switzerland.

Angela leads the Research Centre for Hanse and Baltic History at the European Hansemuseum in Lübeck. Her research has long focused on the history of the German Hanse. With the Lübeck sub-project, she hopes to be able to provide other (Hanseatic) historians with digital tools and methods for their work.

Silke is professor of Digital History at Bielefeld University. Her research focus lies on quantitative text analysis with a specialization in medieval history. She also works on the impact of digitality on the methodologies and theories of history as a humanities discipline.

Christopher has been part of The Flow since July 2023 with the aim to pursue his PhD in it. His main research focus is on ‚essoins‘ - excuses for not appearing in court in English common law. He analyses court rolls of the 13th and 14th centuries with a focus on group influences and affiliations, as well as intersectionality, using customised HTR and NLP models.

Inga is in charge of the Lübeck sub-project on The Flow. During her studies, she already worked extensively with manuscript sources from the pre-modern period. In the project, she is interested in analysing the Hanserezesse in detail as one of the most important sources of Hanse history. By using digital methods, she hopes to conduct a long-term study on the development of the German Hanse for the first time.

Dominic is part of The Flow since July 2023. In his PhD project he works with the Bernese Tower Books (interrogation protocols from the early modern period). He employs various machine learning applications for handwritten text recognition, information extraction and document clustering. Simultaneously, he theorises the epistemological consequences of conducting historical research based on data generated by machines and humans alike.

Dana studies Cognitve Informatics at Bielefeld University. She has been part of The Flow project since July 2023. She is interested in machine learning in the context of natural language processing.

Jonas has been working for the Digital Humanities at the University of Bern since February 2021. As a data scientist he supports The Flow since July 2023, with focus on Natural Language Processing and Handwritten Text Recognition. He is developing and providing digital services/tools for the work with digital sources.

Bart is a historian of the late Middle Ages and early modern period, with a specialization in economic history of the Hanseatic region and the application of digital methods. Employed at the FGHO since June 2024, he will assist in transcribing the Hanserezesse for training HTR models.

Anna is a student assistant for the Digital Humanities in Bern and has been working on The Flow since July 2023. She is responsible for data generation and pre-processing. Based on the source corpus of The Flow - the interrogation records of the Bernese Tower Books - she investigated witch trials in early modern Bern in her bachelor’s thesis.

Judith has been a project assistance at the FGHO since April 2023. In her studies, her focus has been on the history oft the North and Baltic Sea region in the Middle Ages. In The Flow, she is assisting with the transcription and further editing of the Hanserezesse.

Melvin works for Bielefeld University as a student assistant in The Flow. There he mostly handles the technical side of historical work such as annotations, guidelines, transcriptions and data management. He specializes in medieval history with a focus on gender/ masculinity studies.