Dr. Andreas Vlachidis is Associate Professor in Information Science at UCL’s department of information studies, teaching modules in Information Science Technology and in Natural Language Processing and Text Analysis. He has a strong track record in managing multidisciplinary research projects and fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations. As Technical Lead and Co-I of the multimillion UKRI-funded Sloane Lab, heled efforts in data unification, aggregation, and knowledge base development. Currently, as PI of the AHRC-DFG MeDoraH project, he leads UK-Germany research on oral history archival sources, semantics, and Digital Humanities through knowledge graphs, network analysis, and ontology-driven methods. His interdisciplinary expertise spans Information Science, Digital Humanities, and Computer Science, with a research focus on Text Analysis, Information Extraction, Semantic Data Modelling, and Knowledge Bases.