Maria Papadopoulou at University of California, Santa Barbara: Research Collaboration and Expert-Guided AI in the Humanities!
The TALOS Lab is pleased to announce the upcoming lecture and workshop of Dr Maria Papadopoulou, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Classical Philology at the University of Crete and Director of the TALOS Lab, hosted by the Department of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The visit follows an invitation from Dr. Annie K. Lamar, Assistant Professor of Computational Classics and Linguistics at UCSB, is fully funded by UCSB, and reflects a strong commitment to fostering international academic dialogue and collaboration between European and US institutions.
On February 5, 2026, Dr Papadopoulou will lead a professional-development workshop entitled “Researchers across Borders: Funding and Collaboration Opportunities with European Academia.” The session introduces academic career pathways in Greece and Europe, with a particular emphasis on major funding frameworks such as Horizon Europe, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), ERASMUS, and national and bilateral schemes supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK). Drawing on concrete examples from the European research landscape, the workshop offers practical guidance on identifying funding opportunities, building international research teams, and developing sustainable, long-term collaborations. It is aimed primarily at undergraduate and graduate students interested in international research experience and academic careers beyond the United States.
👉 See more here: https://www.classics.ucsb.edu/event/maria-papadopoulou-university-of-crete-researchers-across-borders-funding-and-collaboration-opportunities-with-european-academia/?instance_id=258
On February 6, 2026, Dr Papadopoulou will deliver the lecture “Expert-in-the-Loop AI: Insights from the TALOS Lab.” The lecture presents ongoing research at the TALOS AI4SSH Lab, a European-funded centre dedicated to the responsible integration of Artificial Intelligence into research and teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Through examples of semantic annotation, knowledge graph modelling, and natural language processing, the talk demonstrates how computational methods, when designed and evaluated by domain experts, can enrich established scholarly practices. Central to the lecture is the TALOS approach to “expert-in-the-loop” AI, where human expertise defines research questions, guides model design, curates data, and critically interprets results, framing AI not as a rupture with Classical scholarship but as a methodological evolution within it.
👉 See more here: https://www.classics.ucsb.edu/event/maria-papadopoulou-university-of-crete-expert-in-the-loop-ai-insights-from-the-talos-lab/?instance_id=259
Together, the workshop and lecture underscore the importance of international collaboration, transparent research practices, and critically grounded uses of Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities. Dr Papadopoulou’s invitation to UCSB highlights the growing relevance of European research infrastructures and methodologies for scholars working across disciplinary and geographic boundaries.
