Dr. sc. ETH Zurich Moritz Mähr is an associate researcher in digital humanities at the University of Bern and an information and library science specialist with Research Analytics Services at the 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. 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 and 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.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1881 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1367-1618 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/www.linkedin.com/in/moritz-maehr/ | |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Moritz-Maehr |
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University of Bern
University, Bern, Switzerland
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Die Geschichte von Basel ins Netz stellen
| Authors | Moritz Mähr |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | Projektmanagement und Digital Humanities |
Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte
| Authors | Moritz Mähr |
| Year | 2024 |
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The Making of a Swiss Migration Regime: Electronic Data Infrastructures and Statistics in the Federal Administration, 1960s–1990s
| Authors | Kijan Espahangizi, Moritz Mähr |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Migration History |
Data Centers. Edges of a Wired Nation.
| Authors | Moritz Mähr, Kijan Espahangizi |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Computing Aliens. From Central Control to Migration Scenarios, 1960-1990. | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Data Centers. Edges of a Wired Nation.
| Authors | Moritz Mähr, Kijan Espahangizi |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Computing Aliens. From Central Control to Migration Scenarios, 1960-1990. | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Working with batches of PDF files
| Authors | Moritz Mähr |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Programming Historian | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Digital Federalism - Information, Institutions, Infrastructures (1950–2000)
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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