Erik is an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University’s Centre for Digital Humanities Research; an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Social Sciences, FABLE, at University of Western Australia; and Emeritus Professor at Curtin University. He was previously UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualization, and Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He was also CIC Visualization Theme Leader and Steering Committee member at the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC).