Jascha Merijn Schmitz (he / him)
IMPRS
Main Focus
At the DLU, my focus lies on urban mobility as key part of urbanism and peculiar form of land use, how it shapes and gets shaped by urban environments, and how we can understand and imagine forms of urban mobility different from our contemporary, car-centric one.
Curriculum Vitae
Before I started at the DLU in 10/2025, I was project coordinator for several NFDI4Memory projects, the National Research Data Infrastructure Consortium for historical Humanities. My highlights there were kicking off and coordinating the NFDI4Memory Doctoral Network (PnDH), the Early Career Travel Grants as well as co-organising several Roundtables and international Workshops. At the same time, I was research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair for Digital History of the Humboldt University Berlin (led by Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann), were I worked on a similar project like right now, with a focus on developing historical simulation methods, and taught them, too.
I earned my Master's degree at the same Chair for Digital History writing about the layered History of Historical Simulations, looking how, where and applied by whom the method started and why it might have failed to get established as a method tradition in History (as have many digital methods in the field). During this time, I also took uni courses in NetLogo and worked as a Student Research Assistant at the MPI for the History of Science with, among others, Dr. Malte Vogl and Dr. Aleksandra Kaye, who I met again here!
My Bachelor's was spent mainly at the HU Berlin gaining a degree in History, writing about the early 20th century food system as complex system.