Mori, Elisabetta

Elisabetta Mori is a researcher and historian of science and technology. She is currently a Juan de La Cierva postdoctoral research fellow (2024-2026), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She holds a MSc in Architecture, University of Florence and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Computing at Middlesex University, London. The focus of her academic research is the history of computing in Europe, with a special interest in the 1950s and 1960s. 

She is an associate editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and she has published her research in a variety of venues: peer-reviewed journals and books, in international magazines like IEEE Spectrum, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; and in newspapers like The Guardian, UK. She was guest editor of the 2020 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Special Issue Interface Architects: The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction.

She is a member of the Council of the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC), an Inter-division Commission of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST), falling under the auspices of UNESCO. She is a Senior Research Fellow at The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, UK, and a member of the IEEE Computer Society History Committee; she is also a member of the History of Computing working group of AICA - Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico, Italy.

She was a member of the French ANR funded project PROGRAMme, a visiting scientist at Software Heritage, Paris, and  a member of the Modern History of Mathematics Programme at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.

She is a professional oral history interviewer, trained at the 2016 ACM Workshop on the Oral History of Computing, University of North Carolina. She has researched and undertaken 80+ interviews with computing pioneers and practitioners, for several research projects in Italy, UK, France, and USA. Her collaborations include the Pisa Museum of Computing Machinery, where she also co-authored the podcast Pionieri dell’informatica.