Martin Leiner holds the Chair of Systematic Theology with a specialization in Ethics at the University of Jena in Germany. After studying Protestant theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen, he obtained his doctorate in New Testament in Heidelberg. From 1998 to 2002, he was Professor of Systematic Theology and Religious Hermeneutics at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. From 2000 to 2002, he also served as President of the Institute of Ethics at the University of Geneva. Since 2002, he has been a professor at the University of Jena. In 2013, Martin Leiner founded the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS), the first transdisciplinary research institute in continental Europe dedicated to the scientific and holistic study of reconciliation processes. He founded the first doctoral school on reconciliation studies and the World Association for Reconciliation Research (IARS, founded in 2020 in Jena). Martin Leiner was twice elected Extraordinary Professor of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and has led several large and small research projects.