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Matti La Mela is an Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at Uppsala University, focusing on multidisciplinary digital humanities research. His recent work encompasses methods in digital history, property rights known as allemansrätten, innovation history, and the development of research infrastructures involving parliamentary and historical patent data. Currently, he is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Paris, expected to complete his fellowship in July 2026. He is also a member of the Uppsala Patent History Group. His current research investigates areas of digital history concerning property rights through the application of digital AI-based methods, examining historical materials from the 19th and 20th centuries. His ongoing projects include a study on the Nordic tradition of allemansrätten and its relevance to public access to nature, as well as research into transnational innovation in the context of the Industrial Revolution in Sweden and France, utilizing computational text analysis methods. With a solid background in social science and history, La Mela's work significantly explores intellectual property rights and their historical implications in Sweden.
Uppsala University • Uppsala, Sweden
Teaching and research in digital humanities and economic history.
General Master's requirements applying across Science, Technology, and Humanities departments.