Yaman Kouli is currently Feodor-Lynen-Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and works in Paris. As visiting researcher at the UMR SIRICE, a cooperation of the universities Sorbonne I and IV and the CNRS, he is currently finishing his second book on European integration before 1914. From 2011 to 2018, he was research assistant at the Chemnitz University of Technology. His fields of research are the economic history of Poland, the knowledge based economy and European integration since 1870.