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Co-InvestigatorProf Melissa Terras
Melissa Terras MBE FREng is Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in the digitisation, mining, and analysis of cultural heritage, and using them to build award-winning digital products and services. A leader in the field of Digital Humanities, she has secured over £55m in research funding. Terras was Director of Creative Informatics, the Edinburgh based AHRC Creative Cluster supporting innovation in creative and cultural contexts, and is a founding Director of Transkribus, the AI-powered platform for text recognition of historical documents.
Posted: 18 March 2026

