Eleonora Rohland She is Professor of Intertwined History in the Americas at Bielefeld University since 2015. She trained as an economic, social and environmental historian at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and received her PhD at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) in 2014. Since 2017 she is co-coordinator of the research group Confronting Environmental Crises at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (coves), University of Bielefeld/University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Also since 2017 she is principal investigator at the Center for Collaborative Research (crc) 1288: "Comparative Practices: Ordering and Changing the World" at Bielefeld University. Since 2023 Rohland has been a member of the management of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. His current research focuses on environmental history and, in particular, on the history of climate impacts and catastrophes from the perspective of interwoven history. In this context, he is also interested in the Anthropocene and its important (and uneven) prehistory in the Americas.