As of September 2015 Franciska de Jong is full professor of e-Research for the Humanities and executive director of CLARIN ERIC, the governing body of CLARIN which has its statutory seat at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). CLARIN (Common LAnguage Resources and Technology INfrastructure) has the objective is to support scholars in the humanities and social sciences and beyond, by providing seamless access to digital language data and processing tools hosted by a distributed network of certified repositories all across Europe and other continents.

Franciska de Jong studied Dutch language and literature at Utrecht University (UU). She did a PhD in theoretical linguistics and started to work on language technology in 1985 at Philips Research where she worked on machine translation. For 30 years she was a professor of language technology at the computer science department of the University of Twente.

Her main research interests are in the field of text mining, access technology for and spoken audio archives, cross-language retrieval, and e-research at large. She is the coordinator of the UU initiative Driven by Data.

From 2008 till 2016 she was a member of the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and from 2009 till 2019 of the Governing Board of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB). Currently she is a board member of the Netherlands eScience Center (since 2014), the NWO Permanent Committee for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure (since 2018), and the executive board of ERIC Forum (since 2020).

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