Noam Maeir is a PhD candidate in HUJI, at the department of Comparative Religion and Digital Humanities.

He holds a BA in Psychology and Middle Eastern Studies, and an MA in Comparative Religion, both in HUJI. His research focuses on Syriac literary culture, the study of late antiquity and digital humanities. He utilizes quantitative analysis of Greek loanwords in digitized Syriac literature; digitization of Syriac manuscripts (OCR and HTR); algorithmic NLP analysis of state protocols; "scraping" - writing computer programs that extract data from online websites.