Prof Pieter Francois
Professor Pieter Francois studies world history over long timescales. He designs methodologies to understand patterns in world history quantitatively and constructs infrastructures to store and query world historical data.
Professor Pieter Francois studies world history over long timescales. He designs methodologies to understand patterns in world history quantitatively and constructs infrastructures to store and query world historical data. He also studies how religious tolerance, ritual, social complexity and peace have evolved in world history.
He is the Founding Director of the Seshat Global History Databank. He is the PI on numerous world history and digital humanities grants and at the Alan Turing Institute he is the Theme Lead for the Arts and Humanities and PI of the AHRC-funded Data/Culture. Building Sustainable Communities for Arts and Humanities datasets and software.