After studying Cultural Studies (BA) at the European University Viadrina and at Warsaw University, Matthias Battis received both his MPhil (Russian and East European Studies) and DPhil (History) from the University of Oxford (2016). He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Historical Research at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg and a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London (UCL).