Moritz Mähr
Research Associate
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.
11 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 (137)
scientific-publications10
digital-humanities10
restructuredtext10
python10
network-analysis10
data-management10
sequence-diagram10
pdf-generation10
quantitative10
creative-commons10
repository-pattern10
markdown10
javascript10
ord10
history10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/stadt-geschichte-basel.github.io
Dec 2024 - Jul 2026
Documentation of the work of the team for research data management and digital education of Stadt.Geschichte.Basel.
Contributions:21 reviews, 22 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 7 months
public-historyresearch-data-management
maehr/stadt-geschichte-basel.github.io
Dec 2024 - Jul 2026
Dokumentation der Arbeit des Teams für Forschungsdatenmanagement und digitale Vermittlung von Stadt.Geschichte.Basel.
Contributions:3 PRs, 56 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 7 months
research-data-management
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