Dr. Merja Mahrt is a Research Associate at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, where she studies digitalization and its effects on individuals and society. She completed her ‘Habilitation’ at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, after studying communication and media at Freie Universität Berlin.

Since 2020, she is chair of the Digital Communication Section of the DGPuK.