Juan Luis Suárez is Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures, at Western University, and also a faculty member in Western's Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-conflict Reconstruction and founder of the CulturePlex Lab, a research centre focused on digital innovations, cultural analytics and digital humanities. Dr. Suárez is a philosopher, digital humanist, an internationally renowned interdisciplinary researcher, and public intellectual whose work on digital culture and society has reached broad audiences across several continents. An expert in humanism, the baroque and digital humanities, his research practice combines multiple skill sets to contribute to redefining humanistic methods and tools in the digital age, while keeping the focus on the key questions of the humanistic tradition about the meaning of human life. He has made multiple field-defining achievements in his discipline of digital humanities, including an analysis of our present digital world and numerous research tools and methods. His career has also been characterized by a unifying underlying approach: cultural analytics, of which he is considered a world-renowned expert and pioneer. In recognition of his outstanding work, Juan Luis Suárez was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2025.