Elli Bleeker works as a researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. As a Research Fellow in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie funded network DiXiT (2013–2017), she received advanced training in manuscript studies, text modeling, and XML technologies for text modeling. She completing her PhD at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at Antwerp University (2017) on the role of the scholarly editor in the digital environment. She specialized in digital scholarly editing with a focus on modern manuscripts, genetic criticism, and semi-automated collation. Currently, she works together with Ronald Haentjens Dekker and studies the potential of graph technologies for the modeling of literary and historical texts. This confronts her frequently with complex manuscripts that are very challenging to model computationally. Still, she would choose it again without a doubt. And, to enthuse others for the research field of (digital) scholarly editing, she set up the Companion project together with colleagues Marijke van Faassen, Rik Hoekstra, and Marijn Koolen. She is associate editor of the journal Variants, board member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the DHBenelux Steering Committee, and she recently became a member of the Dutch Society for Textual Scholarship.