Gregor Feindt joined the Leibniz Institute of European History in 2014. Since November 2021, he is also an associated member of special research area 1482 human differentiation with his project Making and Becoming "New (Wo)Men”: Rationalisation, Subjectification, and Materiality in the Industrial Town of Zlín and the Baťa Company, 1920–1950,funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Gregor studied Eastern European and Modern History, and Slavonic Studies in Bonn and Cracow (Jagiellonian University) and completed a PhD at Bonn on national discourse in Central European Samizdat. His thesis was awarded the Fritz Theodor Epstein-Preis of the Verband der Osteuropahistorikerinnen und –historiker in 2014 and the Johannes-Zilkens-Promotionspreis of the German Academic National Foundation in 2015. In 2015/2016, he was Visiting Professor for history and culture of East Central Europe with a focus on Poland at the University of Bremen.

Gregor is a historian of Central Europe and studies the transnational history of Czechoslovakia and Poland in twentieth century. In his new project, he enquires into the cultural history of social engineering and the making of “new (wo)men” in the Czechoslovak shoe company Baťa and the factory town of Zlín. Gregor also works on European Memory and its impact on the integration and disintegration of Europe as a political project. Beyond this, he is interested in processes of human differentiation and contributes to the special research area 1482 human differentiation.