Thorsten Wagner. A scholar of German and Danish descent who has devoted his adult life to studying Jewish Germany, the Holocaust and the Danish rescue of Jews during World War II, Thorsten Wagner has been an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, affiliated with the University of Copenhagen since 2010, and he has served as Academic Director of FASPE – Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics since 2015. He has taught at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, and served for many years as an educator at the Jewish Museum of Berlin and a research fellow at the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen. Prof. Wagner has numerous academic publications in the fields of Modern German and European Jewish History, antisemitism, Holocaust studies, cultures of memory, and Israeli history and society. Born in Sønderborg, Denmark in 1970, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, his graduate studies at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin, and his postgraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prof. Wagner lives with his wife and two children in Copenhagen and Berlin.