I am an Associate Professor of New Media & Digital Culture. My research interests include web history, digital culture and new media work with an emphasis on programming and web design. I earned my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2013 and previously worked at the University of Groningen from 2013-2017. In 2015 I was awarded a Veni grant for my project 'The web that was,' which takes the programming language Perl as a starting point for understanding the technology, culture and economics of the early web.