Marten Düring’s research explores the opportunities and challenges inherent in this transformation and is positioned on the intersection between historical thinking, novel computational methods and software design. Following degrees in cultural history (BA, University of Augsburg) and memory studies (MA, University of Manchester) and research work at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Essen), he successfully defended his PhD thesis in contemporary history at the University of Mainz on the emergence of covert networks during the Second World War. After positions at Radboud University Nijmegen, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the former Centre virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) he joined C²DH in 2016.
Over the last years he has enjoyed working in interdisciplinary research environments with social, computer and information scientists, engineers, designers and developers.
In his ongoing work he coordinates the C²DH-based team of the project for the exploration of semantically enriched historical newspapers, work as founding editor on the , coordinates the , is the contact point for the C²DH’s Hands-on and contributes to the DHARPA project. i mpresso History lecture series Journal of Historical Network Research Historical Network Research Community
Previously he was part of the consortium of the ANR/FNR-funded project (Hybrid Visualization of Dynamic Multilayer Graphs) together with colleagues from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Laboratoire bordelais de recherche en informatique (LaBRI) and CY Tech (Pau/Paris) and worked on the project. BLIZAAR histograph
