Steffen Sammler is Project Head of the European Forum for Reconciliation and Cooperation in History and Social Sciences Education (EFREC) at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media / Georg Eckert Institute, working in International Textbook Cooperation. He studied history and French studies in Leipzig, Rouen, and Florence, earning his PhD in modern history in 1995. He later worked as a DAAD lecturer at Lyon 2 and gained his habilitation in 2010 on European knowledge transfer and regional modernisation. Since 2020 he has also been adjunct professor of modern and contemporary history at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.