The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) team is proud to welcome dr. Fabian Ferrari as an affiliated member. He is an Assistant Professor in Cultural AI at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University (UU), and a member of the UU focus area Governing the Digital Society.

Fabian Ferrari

His postdoctoral research on AI governance (2022-2024) was supported by a Spinoza-funded project led by Prof. dr. José van Dijck, who is a member of the CDH Advisory board.

Fabian holds a PhD in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics. His PhD at the Oxford Internet Institute was fully funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the University of Oxford (Scatcherd European Scholarship). 

Research

Currently, his research is focused on the governance of AI infrastructure, such as supercomputers. He is especially interested in the role of the EU amidst geopolitical tensions between the USA and China. While his earlier work addressed questions of regulating systems such as ChatGPT, he now examines strategic capacity building to develop AI models in line with public values.

Teaching

Fabian has been involved in several study programmes and courses. This academic year, he has taught the workshop Mapping Public Opinion Through Data with Jeroen Bakker (Data School), in which they emphasised different aspects of generative AI. Furthermore, he is currently a thesis supervisor in the BA Media & Culture and in the MA New Media & Digital Culture. In term 4, he will also teach in a new course on Language & Technology, coordinated by dr. Florian Kunneman. This course for first-year BA students will introduce them to generative AI, and specifically, large language models from both a technical and societal perspective.

Relevant DH publications

Fabian Ferrari has been involved in several interesting digital humanities (DH) studies. You can find an overview of all his publications on Google Scholar. The following three relevant DH publications give an indication of his research: