The project team is diverse in background, expertise, and perspectives. Each member contributes their unique skills, ranging from digital humanities research, feminist and intersectional studies, experimental art practices, and critical algorithm analysis. The collaborative and interdisciplinary environment, enriched by several team members’ history of working together on various DH research projects, International conferences and curatorship of e-lit exhibitions, leverages this diverse expertise to ensure significant contributions to critical thinking and practice in Creative Digital Humanities.

 

Diogo Marques Diogo Marques is a researcher at CODA – Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation (University of Porto) and an integrated member of the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature (ILCML). He holds a PhD in Materialities of Literature from the University of Coimbra (2018), with expertise in electronic literature and digital literary studies. Principal Investigator of the DARIAH ERIC project Breaking the Code (2025–26), he is also an author, curator, translator, and co-founder of the cyberliterary collective wr3ad1ng d1g1t5.

Tiago Assis has a PhD from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), and is a professor and researcher at FBAUP. He had a highly privileged path due to social structures and conditions correlated with access to a very exclusive technological education, leading him to research the inherent processes of exclusion and to analyze his actions critically. This reflection brought him closer to a critical theory of communication with poststructuralist and postcolonial frameworks. He works in arts education, teaching and research in this dynamic, focusing on DH, environmental and identity issues.

 

Joana Chicau is a designer and researcher, with a background in dance. She researches the intersection of the body with the designed and programmed environment, aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. Her practice and exploration interweaves web programming with choreography, from the making of online platforms to performances and workshops. In parallel she organises community run events involving collaborative algorithmic improvisation and work on digital equity and activism. She is a PhD candidate at CCI-UAL.

 

Marinela Freitas is Assistant Professor at FLUP and teaches, among other topics, Feminist and Queer Studies. She is a member of the Board of the ILCML, where she coordinates the research group Intersexualities, focused on contemporary theories of gender, sex, and sexualities, favouring an intersectional approach. She also co-coordinates She Thought It: Crossing Bodies in Sciences and Arts, a database with entries on pioneering women, and she has done research and published in the areas of Posthumanism, Comparative Literature, and Utopian Studies.

 

Rosemary Lee is a Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP) and an associated researcher with i2ADS. She completed her PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen (2020), where she gained expertise on the technical, artistic, and ethical implications of machine learning. Lee’s research situates emerging technologies in relation to historical tendencies in visual culture, with a particular focus on the influence of algorithmic processes in art.

 

Vera Moitinho de Almeida’s extensive research experience in digital data lifecycle, commitment to Open Science and FAIR principles, and proficiency in Cultural Heritage and DH will ensure that the project’s data is well-managed, contributing to the wider scientific community, and that its goals are met with the highest standards of research excellence and innovative methodologies. As a senior researcher and coordinator of CODA, she brings a wealth of knowledge in the application of digital technologies to research.

 

Rui Torres is a Professor of Communication Sciences and a cyberliterary artist who contributes to the exploration of the diverse practices of experimental literature at the intersection of language, culture and communication, emerging technologies, and platforms. His hacktivism extends to his functions as co-editor of Bloomsbury’s E-Lit series, and coordinator of the Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Poetry, both illustrative of his commitment to digitally preserving and disseminating literary heritage, while critically rethinking the archive with an eye on contemporary digital culture.

 

Luís Trigo, as a researcher at CODA, advises and supports researchers from FLUP’s R&D units in the development of DH projects, also aiming to connect researchers from different fields and to engage students and citizens in the research processes and results – his main focus in recent years has been working with minoritized communities. Trigo’s research is also integrated in CLUP – Centre for Linguistics of the University of Porto @ FLUP.