Mandana Bender studied Law and Art History at the University in Munich. During her studies, she further completed the Environmental Certificate Program at the Rachel Carson Center Munich as well as a Summer School in Art Business at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art London. She has worked as a (student) research assistant at the Institute of Art History since 2023, where she teaches courses on academic writing and researching. Currently she is enrolled as a PhD candidate at LMU Munich with Ilse Sturkenboom and is researching the Preetorius Collection of Persian manuscripts (Museum Five Continents, Munich). From autumn 2024 onwards, she will be managing the GLOBAL DECO PAPER database.