More to be announced
Further advisors join before the opening on 25 September 2026.
LIMINAL is a research centre at CIIRC CTU. We study how people, organisations and societies adapt to technological and social change. We work with archaeology, anthropology, history, psychology and cultural heritage.

Founder and research lead
Research Associate, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Archaeology, anthropology and how organisations take up new technology.
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Research worker, Department of Software Engineering, FIT CTU Prague
Complex social systems and virtual societies.
Jakub Šenovský studied philosophy and social anthropology at Charles University. He was involved in research and teaching at his home university, and subsequently at the Czech Technical University, where he was also part of the CCHAOS research group, which focused on the study of complex social systems and virtual societies. He continues to work in a similar field as part of the Liminal research group.
Senior researcher, cybersecurity expert and tech lead
Entrepreneur, technologist and researcher
Digital independence, privacy and secure infrastructure.
András has worked in technology and complex systems for over thirty years. He helped build viki.com into a global platform and worked on projects where security and reliability came first. Today he focuses on digital independence and privacy: who really controls our data, and how to build infrastructure that runs on freedom rather than data collection.
Affiliated researcher
Ing., Ph.D., Faculty of Information Technology, CTU Prague
Game design, computer graphics and virtual game worlds.
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Ing., Ph.D., Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU Prague
3D documentation, digital twins, VR and AR in geomatics.
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Sculptor; graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Sculpture, spatial design and work in public space.
↗ ProfileAffiliated researcher — Egyptology
Field archaeologist, Athribis Temple Project, University of Tübingen
Egyptology, data and AI; co-founder of HEN (Humanities and Engineering Network).
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Prof. Mgr., PhD., Head of the Department of Comparative Religion, Comenius University Bratislava
Leads the Maya excavations at Uaxactún and Los Abuelos in Guatemala.
↗ ProfileProfessor of Evolutionary Psychology (Emeritus)
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
↗ ProfileProfessor of African Archaeology
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford; Tutor and Fellow in Archaeology, St Hugh's College
↗ ProfileChief Executive Officer
Bletchley Park Trust
↗ ProfileStipendiary Lecturer in Anthropology
St Hugh's College; Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
↗ ProfileDirector, Institute of Contemporary History
Czech Academy of Sciences
↗ ProfileFurther advisors join before the opening on 25 September 2026.
Archaeology and anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Working with data at scale at Palantir in London.
Community organising for political campaigns, NGOs and companies.
First applied AI projects with cultural institutions, plus talks and advisory.
Archaeology as a user manual for the future.
Czech and Slovak team discovers an ancient Maya city in Guatemala. With CCHAOS at CTU, the first digital twins — Střekov, Oppidum Závist and others.
Tech transformation consultancy, now run by the Mobilis team.
A research institute at CIIRC / ČVUT Prague, with Oxford.
Fieldwork with LIDAR drone acquisition and playable archaeology.
Further team members and advisors to be announced.