Floris Paalman, Ph.D, is a senior lecturer in film studies at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, and coordinator of the MA program "Preservation & Presentation of the Moving Image." He teaches courses on audiovisual archiving, curating, cinema histories, and research methods. He is currently involved with research on the ontology of film archives in regard to social history. He has been trained in cultural anthropology, urbanism, filmmaking, and media studies