Leif Isaksen specialises in the application of IT to analyse the use and conception of space and movement in antiquity. He was formerly Senior IT Development Officer at Oxford Archaeology where he worked on methodologies to map maritime heritage amongst other projects. He is a moderator of the Antiquist IT & Cultural Heritage community and co-organised various workshops including the Methods Network symposium ‘Space & Time: Methods in Geospatial Computing for Mapping the Past‘. He has a degree in Philosophy, an MSc in Archaeological Computing and is currently undertaking a Computer Science PhD using Semantic Web technologies to integrate information across multiple excavation data repositories.

Contact: leif.isaksen@cantab.net