Dr. sc. ETH Zurich 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. 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 data politics and internet governance, 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. Dr. Mähr is an advocate of open science, open access, and open source.

Research Project

The Evolution of Internet Governance. A Study of the Agency for Technology Standards.

Research Interest

His current agenda spans five areas:

  1. 🧠 **Digital Source Criticism in the Age of AI** – circumvent algorithmic bias in digitised and born-digital collections.
  2. 🌐 **Data Politics & Internet Governance** – the project *Exclusion by Design?* explores how global inequality was encoded into early Internet.
  3. 🗃️ **Histories of Digitisation** – history of the digitization of Swiss migration regime.
  4. 🏛️ **Public History Infrastructure** – low-barrier, open-source platforms like *Stadt.Geschichte.Basel* for FAIR/CARE storytelling and data reuse.
  5. 🌱 **Digital Sustainability** – embedding reproducibility, inclusivity, and ethical longevity into all scholarly workflows.

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