Dr. Marc Schalenberg studied Modern History, Philosophy and Art History at the universities of Bonn and Oxford, defending his PhD thesis on 19th century university history at Humboldt University Berlin in 1999. He worked as an assistant professor (“Wissenschaftlicher    Assistent“)    at    Humboldt    University and at the University of Zürich. He was a Research Fellow of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College (Oxford). Marc has a long-standing interest in comparative and interdisciplinary projects as a scholar and coordinator. Among other projects he has edited collective volumes in European cultural and urban history. Having joined the ZiF team in November 2015 as Academic Assistant to the Board of Directors, he is now pursuing these interests in a more administrative and strategic direction. He will coordinate the Bielefeld part of the Intercontinental Academia on Human Dignity.