Andreas Önnerfors is a Reader in Intellectual History, currently based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has an international CV and grew up in Germany before moving back to Sweden during the early 1990s. Originally a cultural and intellectual historian of the 18th century with an interest in cultural encounters, press history and secret societies, Önnerfors has turned his focus increasingly toward understanding contemporary radical-right discourses in Sweden and Europe and he has published on the German PEGIDA-movement and related organizations. Önnerfors has an extensive record of publications and of knowledge-exchange with the non-academic sector.