Moritz Mähr
Associate Researcher
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMoritz Mähr is an associate researcher in digital humanities and information scientist whose decade-long career bridges digital history, STS, and open research infrastructure across Swiss universities. He combines a Dr. sc. from ETH Zurich on the digitization of Swiss migration authorities with hands-on project management for large public-history initiatives like Stadt.Geschichte.Basel and technical contributions to national repository interoperability (NAIF). His work focuses on digital source criticism in the age of AI, the history of data politics and internet governance, and pragmatic minimal-computing approaches to sustainable public history grounded in FAIR and CARE. Moritz teaches critical AI literacy for historians, designs secure participatory research databases for sensitive topics, and builds metadata and identifier workflows to improve findability and governance of research outputs. An advocate of open science and open source, he blends humanities scholarship, data science, NLP/SNA methods, and practical engineering to make archival and computational practices more transparent and ethically robust.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science and Software Engineering, Data Science and Software Engineering at University of ZurichBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Exchange semester Philosophy and economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Exchange semester Philosophy and economics at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinDr. sc. ETH Zürich History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Dr. sc. ETH Zürich History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at ETH Zürich
German, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (172)
scientific-publications10
digital-humanities10
restructuredtext10
network-analysis10
document-conversion10
data-management10
pdf-generation10
command-line-tool10
creative-commons10
hosting10
x-plane10
markdown10
citations10
javascript10
history10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
open-museum/d3shooter
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/zotero-bib-to-gh
Nov 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:13 PRs, 27 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 11 months
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