Aurelie Herbelot she/her

Aurelie Herbelot is a researcher in the area of Computational Linguistics. After gaining her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2010, she worked at various European institutions, most recently at the Center for Mind and Brain Sciences, University of Trento (Italy).

Aurelie has been passionate about free software and open science for many years. Since 2016, she leads the PeARS project , an open-source community effort aimed at developing a low-resource, decentralised Web search engine.

You will also find Aurelie on stage at the Malersaal, SchauSpielHaus Hamburg, doing AI critique in the show Maschinenraum der Zukunft (together with philosopher Eva von Redecker).