Team ==== A full list of people who have contributed to the project can be found on the project info website's `who we are `_ page. This page intends to be a useful place to find out who is currently working on the project, how to get in touch with them and what they can help you with. If you are new to the team, please add your details to the "Bios" section below. To do this follow the guide on `how to update these docs `_. Follow the example of the existing bios, adding the following sections: - **Who am I?** A brief introduction to who you are. - **What can I help with?** A list of things you can help with. - **Administrative privileges:** This is your access level on `seshat-db.com` which should be one of the following: - Seshat Admin - Research Assistant - Seshat Expert - Public User .. note:: Project roles that match the above access levels are defined `here `_. Contact ------- If you need to contact a member of the team, email them or use one of the communication channels listed below. Some team members have also added a bio to this page explaining what they can help with and their administrative privileges for the Seshat website. .. list-table:: Team Members :header-rows: 1 * - Name - Title - Email * - Daniel Hoyer - Senior Research Associate - `seshatghd@gmail.com` * - Daniel Kondor - Data Scientist - `kondor@csh.ac.at` * - Ed Chalstrey - Research Data Scientist - `echalstrey@turing.ac.uk` * - Enrico Cioni - Lead Research Assistant - `enrico.a.cioni@gmail.com` * - Jakob Hauser - Research Assistant - `jakob.e.hauser@protonmail.com` * - Jakob Zsambok - Research Assistant - `jakob.zsa@gmail.com` * - Jenny Reddish - Lead Editor - `reddish.jenny@gmail.com` * - Jim Bennett - Senior Data Scientist - `bennett.jim@gmail.com` * - Kalle Westerling - Research Application Manager - `kwesterling@turing.ac.uk` * - Majid Benam - Data Scientist - `benam@csh.ac.at` * - Matilda Peruzzo - Postdoctoral Researcher - `mperuzzo@turing.ac.uk` * - Peter Turchin - Chair of Board of Directors - `turchin@cliotech.org` * - Pieter Francois - Executive Director - `pieter.francois@anthro.ox.ac.uk` * - Samantha Holder - Lead Historical Researcher - `samantha.louise.holder@gmail.com` Communication channels ---------------------- - Complexity Science Hub: e-mail - Alan Turing Institute: email or Slack. On the institute's Slack workspace, request to join the `#data-culture` and `#seshat-turing` channels. Bios ---- Ed Chalstrey ~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Who am I?** - Research Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute - Working on the Seshat project from November 2023 until March 2025 **What can I help with?** - Seshat website codebase, in particular the maps pages - Seshat API Python package - Cliopatria shape dataset - Software Engineering & Data Science skills **Administrative privileges:** Seshat Admin Jenny Reddish ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Who am I?** - Lead Editor for Seshat - Working for the project since 2016 **What can I help with?** - Questions about polities, definitions of variables etc. - Responding to errors you spot in Seshat data **Administrative privileges:** Researcher Majid Benam ~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Who am I?** I am a **Software Engineer and Web Developer** at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria, working on the Seshat project since **January 2021**. **What can I help with?** - Seshat Website & Database - Maintain and improve the `Seshat website `_ and its codebase. - Assist with account creation, sign-in, and login issues. - Manage data entry and data extraction processes. - Technical Expertise - Software engineering and data science skills. - Design and optimization of database architectures and data structures. - Integration of new datasets into the Seshat database. - Support & Admin Role - Troubleshoot website issues or outages. - Serve as a **Seshat Admin** with administrative privileges. Feel free to reach out if you need assistance. Email: `benam@csh.ac.at` **Administrative privileges:** Seshat admin Matilda Peruzzo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Who am I?** - Research Data Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute - Working on the Seshat project from July 2024 until March 2025 **What can I help with?** - Analysis of Seshat data - Usage of API and SeshatDataAnalysis packages - Data Science skills **Administrative privileges:** Researcher Pieter Francois ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Who am I?** - Professor of Cultural Evolution, University of Oxford - Group Lead of AI & Digital Humanities for Resilient Societies, Alan Turing Institute - Founding and Executive Director of the Seshat Global History Databank **What can I help with?** - Governance of Seshat - Engagement of historians with the Seshat Databank - Historical data - Setting up collaborations - Funding applications - Links with other projects - Use of Seshat Databank by the policy world - Setting new data gathering, analysis, and publication plans **Administrative privileges:** Seshat admin Peter Turchin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Who am I?** - Chair, Board of Directors, the Seshat Global Databank - Project leader for Social Complexity and Collapse at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna - More info at https://peterturchin.com/about/ **What can I help with?** - Overall strategy of the Seshat Project - Collaborations with other research groups - Statistical analyses of the Seshat data - Building mechanism-based models to be tested with Seshat data **Administrative privileges:** Seshat admin