Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell is professor of cultural history and Director of the Global and European Studies Institute at University Leipzig as well as spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 and the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics. Since 1991 he serves as editor of Comparativ. Journal of Global History and since 2015 he sits on the board of the International Committee of Historical Sciences. His research focuses on cultural transfers between world regions, historical spatialization processes, comparative revolutionary history and historiography.