Prof. Zoltán Biedermann, University College London.
Zoltán Biedermann is a historian of early global interactions occurring in the context of “European expansion” especially in Asia. He joined UCL in 2013 to help set up the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies programme while also expanding the provision of historical contents. His focus is on early modern diplomacy, imperial ideas, travel writing, material culture, cartography and spatial politics, particularly in settings involving the Portuguese, but also other Europeans including Spanish, Dutch, English and French travellers and agents of empire.