dr. WSK (Will) Hurst, MSc BSc

Dr Hurst is an Associate Professor in Data Science and eXtended Realities in the Information Technology Group at Wageningen university. He also founded, and is head, the Social Creative Technologies Lab, which specialises in projects related to game engines, virtual, augmented and mixed reality and Data Science. To-date, he has over 100 international publications and has also been principal investigator for several grants funded by different organisation such as EU/NGI, NWO, InnovateUK, EPSRC. He also has 12 years’ teaching experience covering subjects such as Data Science Concepts, eXtended Realities, Data Visualisation, Digital Games Content Production, Internet and Web Technologies, and Digital Storytelling.