Frédéric Clavert is an assistant professor in European Contemporary History at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. He’s the Head of the Contemporary European History research group.

Frédéric is an active member of the digital humanities community. He researched the monetary organisation of Continental Europe in the 20th century, but then gradually turned his attention to the study of the relationship between historians and their primary sources in the digital age on the one hand, and the use of massive data from web platforms in memory studies on the other. He led the project around the Centenary of the Great War on Twitter. With Caroline Muller (Université Rennes 2), he is co-editor of the online book . He is also interested in the . He is today focusing more and more his research on generative AI as producer of primary sources. He is managing editor of the .

Frédéric teaches at the Bachelor and Master levels, on European History of the 20^th century and on collective memory in the digital age.

Frédéric has published several articles in large-audience newspapers and magazines. The latest one explains (French).

Frédéric was visiting professor at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ Rennes 2 (2019).

Before joining the C²DH, Frédéric worked as a researcher in Strasbourg, at the in Luxembourg and at the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Lausanne. He was also a research engineer at Paris-Sorbonne 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ for the .

Frédéric completed studies in political sciences and contemporary history in Strasbourg and Leeds. He wrote his PhD thesis on , German Minister of Economics (1934–1937) and President of the Reichsbank (1924–1930; 1933–1939).