André Piza

SSI fellow

Alan Turing Institute

Andre Piza has been working at the intersection of technology, research and the creative industries for over two decades. With a creative background in theatre producing, teaching and directing, his experience brings together a lived understanding of creative practice with successful delivery of research and creative projects. At People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London), he has managed major international research partnerships with independent and flagship arts organisations, multidisciplinary researchers, technologists and creative practitioners. 

In the last 7 years at the Alan Turing Institute (London, UK), Andre has contributed to a wide range of national initiatives to develop the UK's digital research environment. He has managed projects such as Living with Machines, the UK’s largest investment in Digital Humanities, and Accelerating AI for the Arts and Humanities, building resources for sustainable software-intensive research communities. More recently, he coordinated 35 senior leaders in digital research, co-authoring a Roadmap for the implementation of a national Research Software Engineering Capability skilled in Arts and Humanities (Beavan et al, 2025). As Senior Research Community Manager, he has worked to develop sustainable communities like the Turing's AI&Arts group, which he co-founded and congregates over 500 members from across the globe, producing research and creative outputs using cutting-edge technologies.

He is a co-founder of the Contemporary Narratives Lab, has written about cultural exchange (The Art of Cultural Exchange, Heritage et al., 2018), the impact of creative enterprise zones (Virani et al., 2018) and edited Shakespeare in the Classroom (2014).