Elena Pierazzo is a DH Professor at the Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, where she directs the master in Digital Humanities. She has a PhD in Italian Philology. Her specialisms are Italian Renaissance texts, digital editions of early modern and modern draft manuscripts, digital editing, and text encoding. Her most recent publication is Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods (2015). She has been the Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and involved in the TEI user community, with a special interest in modern and medieval manuscripts. Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the DH2019 conference, she was the co-chair of the working group on digital editions of the European Network NeDiMAH and one of the scientists-in-chief for the ITN DiXiT.