Vera Chiquet is research assistant for Digital Humanities and works at the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel. An art history and sociology scholar by training (PhD), she focuses on new methods in the humanities, mainly computational and experimental methods to explore visual and social practices.
Vera Chiquet is doing visual studies with old and with new research questions and supports a wide variety of digital research projects as coordinator of the PhD-Program in Digital Humanities, Co-Founder of the DHch Network, Coordinator of the DARIAH Representation of the University of Basel, and the Data and Service Center for the Humanities.