Adam Izdebski is an interdisciplinary historian and ecologist, a graduate of Warsaw and Oxford Universities. He leads an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. He is also a full professor of environmental history at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His research interests cover climate change, pandemics, biodiversity, and the interaction of economic development and ecological dynamics in the Late Holocene. In 2024, he was awarded an ERC Synergy Grant EUROpest. He has been involved in several science for policy initiatives and advised the European Commission as well as the European Parliament.