Computers change how institutions see the world.

I study the history of computing as a history of institutions, knowledge, and power. My research asks how information systems change what administrations can know and do, and how those changes affect the people they govern. My work on Switzerland follows the introduction of computers into federal administration and the use of electronic records to manage labour migration.

These historical questions also inform my practice in digital history. I examine how digitisation, metadata, and AI shape the sources available to researchers and the interpretations they support. Through collaborative work on public history and research infrastructure, I connect source criticism with practical questions of access, documentation, and long-term preservation. I am interested in approaches that make research understandable and reproducible, while keeping its technical demands manageable. Across these projects, the computer is both an object of historical inquiry and a tool whose assumptions need to be examined.