Hi 👋 , I'm Moritz
A passionate historian and hacker from Zurich
#STS #DigitalHumanities #HistoryOfComputing #SNA #NLP
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Moritz Mähr is an Associate Researcher in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern and the digital project manager of Stadt.Geschichte.Basel at the University of Basel. He studied history and philosophy of knowledge, computer science, and banking and finance in Zurich and Berlin. From 2018 to 2022, he was a research assistant at the Chair for the History of Technology at ETH Zurich. He wrote a dissertation on the digitization of migration authorities in Switzerland in the 1960s. The study was part of the SNSF-funded project Trading Zones. His research interests include science and technology studies, digital humanities, and the history of computing. He is an advocate of open science, open access and open source.
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🔭 I’m currently working on the evolution of Internet Governance -
🌱 I’m currently learning how to convey history digitally and make it accessible to a broad public -
👯 I’m looking to collaborate on Awesome Digital History, Awesome Digital Humanities, Awesome Scientific Writing and Academic Pandoc template -
👨💻 Some of my projects are documented at moritzmaehr.ch -
📝 I sometimes write scientific stuff -
💬 Ask me anything about digital history -
📫 Reach me via email