Prof. Dr. Frank Jacob, born in 1984, studied history and Japanese studies at the Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg and at Osaka University from 2004 to 2010. In 2012, he received his doctorate in Japanese Studies from the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a thesis on secret societies in Germany and Japan. After working as a lecturer at the Friedrich Alexander University and the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, he was appointed as a research assistant at the Chair of Modern History I at the Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg in 2013. In 2014, he received an appointment to a tenure-track professorship in world and global history from 1500 onwards at the City University of New York, and in 2018 an appointment to a professorship (tenured) in global history (19th and 20th centuries) at Nord Universitet, Norway.