New Leibniz Chair holder

Professor Jenny Mander is the new Leibniz Chair at the German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (DSM). This means that another internationally renowned scientist from Cambridge University will take on this prestigious position.

Jenny Mander is co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement an der University of Cambridge (UK).Her research focuses on the early modern period and the way in which the Enlightenment has been used (and misused) as a historiographical reference point in late modern debates. Mander is intensively engaged with the question of how global exchange and transnational movements shape our common history in Europe and beyond. In doing so, she expands the DSM's expertise beyond transatlantic migration history to a global maritime perspective, thereby contributing significantly to raising the institute's profile. The collaboration with Jenny Mander involves establishing a strategic, long-term partnership between the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement and the DSM.

Jenny Mander succeeds Prof. Dr. William O'Reilly, who held the Leibniz Chair from 2018 to 2023.

Leibniz Chairs express a particularly close connection between international researchers and a Leibniz institution. These researchers must have a high international reputation and have made a long-term and outstanding contribution to the Leibniz Institute.

Leibniz Institutes can apply centrally for the appointment of a scientist to an honorary Leibniz Chair. If the Presidium approves the application, the Leibniz Institute appoints the nominee, usually for a period of five years. Eleven Leibniz Chairs have been awarded to date.