Marcus Liwicki is an apl.-professor in the University of Kaiserslautern and a senior assistant in the DIVA research group at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland (UNIFRI). His research interests include machine learning, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, digital humanities, knowledge management, ubiquitous intuitive input devices, document analysis, and graph matching. From October 2009 to March 2010 he visited Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) as a research fellow (visiting professor), supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2015, at the young age of 32, he received the ICDAR young investigator award, a bi-annual award acknowledging outstanding achievements of in pattern recognition for researchers up to the age of 40. He is a member of the IAPR and a regular reviewer for international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Pattern Recognition, and Pattern Recognition Letters. He is a board member of the International Graphonomics Society and a PC-Chair of the International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis.

Dr Fotini Simistira received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1996 and her Ph.D. degree in 2015 from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. Currently she is working as a scientific collaborator and a postdoc at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Her research interests are in the fields of recognition of handwritten mathematical formulas and text and historical document analysis.

Dr Manuel Bouillon is a research associate at UNIFRI. He holds a PhD degree in online active learning for handwriting recognition and his main research interests are handwriting recognition and human computer interactions. His role in the iMuSciCA project is to develop the framework bringing all the core-enabled technologies together.