MEET THE XRCHIVING TEAM

Co-founder of XRchiving Limited, Geoff is a Heritage Lead at King's College London and a senior archivist. He is chair of AIM25, a charity representing 150 cultural organisations in London. He has initiated numerous projects relating to technology and GLAM, focusing on social good and the built environment. 

Rob is a veteran immersive game writer and experience designer, Creative Director of AR design studio Playlines and a co-founder of XRchiving. He is a Visiting  Fellow at KCL and author of the upcoming Augmenting Imagination: Storytelling for Spatial Computing and Mixed Realities.

Co-founder of Cradle of English and of XRchiving Limited, Tam is a passionate advocate of the potential for Immersive technologies to enhance the impact of Digital Cultural Heritage in EdTech, tourism, and business community engagement. His core commitments are to The Long Now and the UK’s vibrant future within Europe.

Ronald is Senior Computer Officer at the University of Cambridge. He researches collaborative XR and immersive technologies for cultural heritage, leads a Darwin 3D project, partner for proposed UK national 3D repository, and co-chairs IIIF 3D Community and Technical Specification Groups. He holds ACM, BCS, Computer Society, and IEEE membership.

Drew is part of the Digital Heritage Research Lab at the Cyprus University of Technology, developing documentation standards for the digital preservation of European Cultural Heritage. His earlier work laid the foundation of The London Charter, establishing internationally recognised principles for 3D visualisation methods in the communication of cultural heritage.

A veteran of the UK’s leading arts institutions, Hans established and chairs the Artificial Intelligence Group at Royal Museums Greenwich. A co-creator of the Our Ocean, Our Planet portal, he spearheads RMG’s annual World Oceans Day event. In his free time Hans composes music and has featured on BBC R3.

Mandy is project manager at the Creative AR/VR Hub at Manchester Metropolitan University and programme chair for its annual International XR-Metaverse Conference. Her wealth of projects, including collaborations with Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Jewish Museum, are focused on how XR can help curate and preserve knowledge from the past.

Dr Marinos Ioannides is the director and founder of the Cyprus University of Technology's Digital Heritage Research Lab and holds the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage. He was appointed EU ERA Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, to establish a Centre of Excellence in the digital documentation of Cultural Heritage.

Professor Amanda Murphy is an award-winning Producer in the Creative Industries. As Executive Producer of the UK’s largest immersive storytelling project, Storytrails, she brought archive and stories alive using augmented reality. Bringing creative industry partners together with academia in research and development programmes is at the heart of her work.

Fridolin Wild is a professor at the Institute of Educational Technology of The Open University, where he leads its Performance Augmentation Lab (PAL). He has led numerous EU, European Space Agency, and nationally funded research projects, and his work in XR interactive education has won him awards for standards innovation.

A veteran of three decades of innovation in Cultural Heritage interpretation, Deborah is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Digital Technologies at the University of Winchester. Through her company, Virtual Cities, she is developing a prototype ‘Virtual Cities-Winchester’ reconstructing part of the town in medieval and Georgian eras.

Jane is Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research interests include digital history, born-digital archives (particularly the archived web), and open-access publishing. She has most recently been elected chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition.