Members
Our team includes historians, AI experts, computer engineers, modelers, e-learning experts, and game designers.
We are especially interested in designing and realizing projects, in which postgraduate and undergrduate students will develop their digital history skills in cooperation with faculty members.
Research team
Apostolos Spanos
Apostolos is a professor of history at the University of Agder and the founder of Digital History Lab. His research and teaching focus on interdisciplinary approaches to historical evolution, historical consciousness, the use of history, dimensions of historical time, games and gaming as historical sources, and the study of innovation as a mode of historical existence and evolution.
Alexandra Lazareva
Alexandra is an Associate Professor at the University of Agder. Her research is focused on educational technology in the context of higher education. Her research interests include computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), student engagement, student assessment, teacher education, and technology-rich flexible learning spaces.
Christian Omlin
Jose Padilla
Jose is a Research Associate Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. His primary research focuses on advancing computational modeling methods towards increasing modeling accessibility across ages and across disciplines. His research takes him from the office to in-country fieldwork generating insight into topics ranging from forced migration to community resilience.
Erika Frydenlund
Erika is a Research Associate Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University. Her primary research interests are in forced migration, poverty and development, and multidisciplinary collaboration. She is motivated by creative use of research methodologies including agent-based modeling and participatory modeling.
Christine Philliou
Christine is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and specializes in the connected histories of the Balkans and Middle East since the 17th century, focusing particularly on the emergence of the Greek and Turkish nation-states out of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently working on http://istanpolis.org/.
Christian Robere Simonsen
Christian is assistant professor of information and communication technology at the University of Agder. He is especially interested and active in designing digital games and he conducts research and teaches on the use of digital games in teaching and learning.
Themis Dimitra Xanthopoulou
Themis is an assistant professor at the University of Agder with a background in environmental engineering. She primarily employs modelling and simulations to navigate her work as a knowledge integrator. Themis champions interdisciplinary research and she is dedicated to tackling intricate environmental and societal issues, employing participatory research methods and incorporating philosophical perspectives to enrich her solution-seeking process.
Mauricio Cifuentes
Mauricio is a senior engineer and instructional designer at the University of Agder. For the last twenty years, he has been working in different fields within information systems and digital didactics. His interest and focus area is the use of innovative digital tools and didactics to explore new methods for student active learning.
Sondre Netteland
Sondre is a tech researcher, developer and designer. His main research focuses around how technology can be utilised and implemented in the services offered by Digital History Lab.
Marthe Bøhmer
Marthe is a multimedia designer specializing in graphic design and web design. Her focus is on creating user-friendly and visually pleasing designs for the users of the Digital History Lab.
Sondre Vindbo
Sondre has twenty years of experience in business as an entrepreneur, project leader and general manager. In his MA thesis he studied the use of history in political communication. His fields of interest are historical consciousness, use of history, memory, identity and how they influence social, political and economic decision making in society.
