The Now.Museum team
Yves Rozenholc, Chairman
Yves Rozenholc is Professor of Data Science at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Paris Cité. He heads the lab UR 7537 BioSTM “Biostatistics, Processing and Modeling of Biological Data”. His background ranges from applied mathematics to mathematical applications for life sciences. He has directed or co-directed projects such as “Statistical facial reconstruction”, “Tumor angiogenesis segmentation and monitoring in DCE-MRI” and “Liquid biopsy”, for which he was involved in the first method for screening tumor mutations from circulating DNA in 2015. Today, he is involved in the development of a chemical nose (array of non specific sensors trained to have predictive value).
In March 2020, he founded the Covid-19 Museum which is part of the Now Museum, bridge between data sciences, computer sciences, arts and humanities and social sciences. The Now.Museum aims to help capture, through its digital manifestations, the present in the making, as a shared cultural heritage.
Juliette Vion-Dury, Board member
Juliette Vion-Dury is Professor of comparative literature at Sorbonne Paris Nord University, (USPN) and a former member of the director board of the Campus Condorcet and of the scientific council of the MSH-Paris Nord, as well as former Vice-President “Grands Campus” of the USPN. She is also a member of the GIS “Games and society” and scientific director of its Ludocorpus. Her thesis dealt with the literary sources of Freudian psychoanalysis; her HDR was devoted to Dionysism as a process of spatialization of thought, of symbolization and of restoring old unanswered questions. Her present research focuses on creativity, on the relationships between literature, psychoanalysis and psychiatry, on geocriticism and mythocriticism. She is a contributor to both Covid-19.Museum and Now.Museum
Vyacheslav (Slava) Tykhonov, Chief Scientific Officer
Vyacheslav Tykhonov was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. With a background in information and computer science, Slava has worked for more than 20 years in the area of software development, research and innovation for national, European and international research infrastructures.
Most recently, as a Senior RD Engineer at DANS-KNAW and FAIR data expert, Slava participated in various European projects funded by the European Commission. For many years, he has been an active member of the Open-Source community around the Harvard Dataverse platform. As a knowledge engineer and Semantic Web enthusiast, Slava explored and implemented new solutions and data services, from data enrichment to long-term archiving.