Dr. Werner Stangl.

Werner was the principal investigator of the initial FWF project at the University of Graz, Austria, and responsible for data model, historical research, and GIS work. He also implemented many aspects of workflow and design. After the project, he has been involved in projects at Yale University (Digital Tokugawa Lab) and at the EHESS in Paris (project Top Urbi).

Paul Stangl, BSc.

Paul worked for the project as a research engineer at the University of Graz from 2014 to 2017. Now working in the private sector at Blackshark AI, he continues to advise the project in technical implementation. He has also been in charge of the relaunch of the server infrastructure at our new home at Yale.

José Antonio Espín-Sánchez, PhD.

is Associate Professor (on term) of Economics at Yale University, affiliated with the Economic Growth Center. He works on historical migration and social mobility in Spain and Spanish America.

He is deeply invested in the idea of a digital data infrastructure for economic history, he opened all the doors and made the new home at Yale possible. Gently motivating us to action, things are taking shape(file) again, and José is full of ideas of what we can do next - no doubt.