Geert Kessels received his BA in History from Radboud University Nijmegen and completed the research master program in History at the University of Amsterdam. He graduated with a thesis on the influences of German Idealism on the Slovak romantic intellectual Ľudovit Štúr. During his studies he completed an internship at the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms and worked as a project manager for EUROCLIO - The European Association of History Educators.