Dr. sc. ETH Zurich Moritz Mähr is a Senior Scientist in Digital History at the Institute of History and an Associate Researcher in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern. He is also an Information and Library Science Specialist with Research Analytics Services at ETH Zurich. Until 2025, he was the Project Manager of Stadt.Geschichte.Basel at the University of Basel and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg; in May and June 2026, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam.
His research bridges digital history, science and technology studies, and open research infrastructure. His focus areas include digital source criticism in the age of AI, the history of digitization in public administration, minimal-computing approaches to public history, and digital sustainability grounded in FAIR/CARE principles.
Dr. Mähr studied history, computer science, and banking and finance in Zurich and Berlin. He received his doctorate from ETH Zurich for his dissertation on the digitization of Swiss migration authorities in the 1960s. His research operationalizes Open Science principles in digital history through reproducible methods, interoperable infrastructures, and participatory governance.
