Awarded TheMuseumLab 2025 fellowship. Theme of this year is 'Colonialism and Resistance'.

New publication: Díez Díaz, V., Akhlaq, S., Kaiser, K. et al. (2025). Nat. Rev. Biodivers. 1, 145–146 (2025). Digitization as a research methodology in colonial natural history collections. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00031-2

New Publication: Depraetere, M., Akhlaq, S., Díaz, V.D., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. (2025). Virtual Access to Fossil & Archival Material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909–1913): More Than 100 years of Data-Meta-paradata Management for Improved Standardisation.In: Ioannides, M., Baker, D., Agapiou, A., Siegkas, P. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0_8

Organising and facilitating series of internal workshops, as part of the project Virtual access to fossil and archival material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913), in order to discuss just representation of musuem data of colonial nature

Organised and facilitated workshop, titled Thinking Through Tendaguru Dinosaurs, with Tanzanian Scholars in order to discuss highliting colonial influences in museum data

Talk during the event series 'Kolloquium Provenienzforschung' on the topic Power and Agency in Data Infrastructures of Museum and Archival Collections at German Lost Art Foundation