Sven Jaros studied History and Cultural Studies (BA) as well as an interdisciplinary Master's in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Universities of Leipzig, Jena and Lublin. He was a research assistant in Leipzig and coordinator of the DFG project ”Mediation of Rule on the Borders of Latin Europe in the Late Middle Ages”, in the context of which he completed his doctorate in 2020 with a thesis on multi-confessional negotiations of rule in Crown Ruthenia (today's eastern Poland and western Ukraine) between 1340 and 1434.
The thesis was published at the end of 2021 in the series “Europa im Mittelalter” by De Gruyter Verlag. From October 2021 to August 2022, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg before moving to the University of Halle. Currently, he is a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at the University of Birmingham.