Sofie Taes
Chair - Management Board
MC Term: January 2022 - December 2027
Research Assistant / Curator / Comms officer
Catholic University of Leuven
Belgium, BE
Sofie Taes, a graduate in Musicology (2004) and Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2005), has been working for over a decade at the Department of Cultural Studies (CS Digital) of KU Leuven, mostly in international projects in the Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural Heritage sector. In September 2022, she became the Innovation (IOF) Manager for DigitGLAM, a research valorisation consortium at the intersection of humanities and innovative technologies. Since January 2025, Sofie is the chair of the Europeana Network Association Management Board. Furthermore, she chairs Europeana’s Working Group Supporting the digital cultural heritage of Ukraine and is a member of the Sub-group of the Expert Group of the European Commission dedicated to the Data Space for Cultural Heritage (CEDCHE). Sofie is also a member of Flanders’ UNESCO Memory of the World committee.
