Filip Emanuel Schuffert is currently a research assistant at the University of Regensburg and is working on a dissertation on metropolitan transformation processes in 18th century Warsaw under the supervision of Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg. His research focuses on Eastern European history, urban and metropolitan history and intercultural studies. From 2015 to 2022, he studied history, Eastern European history, sociology and Slavic studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen, where he completed his Master's thesis on “The acculturation of Saxon war refugees in Warsaw during the Seven Years' War and under Stanisław August Poniatowski (1756-1795)”, which was awarded the Prize of the Polish Ambassador and the Polish Academy of Sciences as well as the Georg R. Schroubek Prize. From 2022 to 2023, he worked on the project “PLUS18 - Poland-Lithuania and Saxony in the 18th century” at the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore Dresden. He was also a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Institute for Comparative Urban History in Münster.