Dr Stefan Lueder is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University. He earned his PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2024 with a dissertation on state formation and legitimation in the Himalayas, published by Springer Nature. Dr Lueder’s multidisciplinary expertise spans history, political science, and cultural studies, focusing on South Asia’s and the Himalaya’s regional and global entanglements.