About Me

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University. In 2025, I defended my dissertation at Leiden University. As a historian, I apply computational techniques to study parliaments, the internet, newspapers, and more. My research interests include political history, cultural evolution, conceptual history, and computational text analysis. My past projects have focused on the history of nationalism, iconic images, and conceptual change in digitized newspapers.

Besides writing long papers, I also enjoy data visualization. I'm fascinated by the way complex (historical and cultural) data can be visualized in an informative and appealing way.

Reach me at r [dot] s [dot] ros [at] uu [dot] nl.