Dr. Iryna Klymenko is a historian of early modern Europe in the Department of History at Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, with broad interests in the entangled history of Europe's "East" and "West", as well as in interdisciplinary methods of historical research. She is a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2025/26) and a Consolidator Fellow at the Historisches Kolles, Munich (2023/24). Previously, she has held positions as a Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome (2022) and in the Early Modern European History Department at Cambridge University (2021).

Her first book, Semantiken des Wandels. Zu Konstruktion von Veränderbarkeit in der Moderne (Transcript 2019), which received the Munchner Historicum Prize, is an intellectual history of the concept of societal change from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the modern era. She is currently completing her second book project, Körper und Ordnung: Eine Religionsgeschichte von Nahrung und Kleidung in der Frühen Neuzeit, which explores the role of food and clothing in shaping religious identities among Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox, and Protestant groups in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1648.

Iryna Klymenko is affiliated with the Center for Urban History through research and educational projects. She collaborates with the Center in developing the Educational Platform REESOURCES: Rethinking Eastern Europe. She is also part of the Center's international documentation initiative 24.02.22, 5 am: Testimonies from the war, where she leads a Munich subproject in cooperation with Ludwig-Maximilian University and the Bavarian State Library. She is also a member of the academic advisory board of a new book series, Stories of War. A Series on Documenting and Archiving, published by INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange and the Center for Urban History.