Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller

Terhi has a background in studying the ancient world from the perspectives of archaeology, philology, and cultural heritage alike. She received First Class Hons for her Undergraduate degree in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Birmingham, UK, and continued on to successfully complete MPhil Cuneiform and Near Eastern Studies, with a focus on the ancient languages of Sumerian and Akkadian. She also holds a MSc Museum Studies (University of Leicester, UK), and MSc Web Science (University of Southampton, UK), both of which examined the use of Linked Data and semantic web technologies with cultural heritage and ancient world data. Her PhD thesis (fully funded by the EPSRC and Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Southampton) focused on the evaluation of the suitability of existing OWL ontologies to represent the narrative structure, as well as the philological, bibliographical, and museological data of ancient Mesopotamian literary compositions. She also has a number of publications on the role gamification and informal online environments can have in facilitating the learning process. Terhi joined ANU from the University of Oxford's e-Research Centre, were she published on projects focusing on bibliographic metadata and digital libraries, and digital musicology. She was selected as a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute in 2016.