Jörn Leonhard holds the chair for western European history at the Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg since 2006, before he was director of the School of History at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies(FRIAS) and visiting fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Since 2002, he has been a fellow of the Royal Historical Society London and since 2015 a member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Among his most important publications is Die Büchse der Pandora. Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs, Munich 2014.