Marten Seppel

Seppel graduated from the University of Tartu with a bachelor's degree in 2001. In 2003, he received a master's degree from the University of Cambridge.^[3] On June 26, 2008, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Tartu, titled Näljaabi Liivi- ja Eestimaal 17. sajandist 19. sajandi alguseni (Famine Relief in Livonia and Estonia from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century).^[4] His supervisors were Enn Tarvel and Tiit Rosenberg, and his reviewer was Aleksander Loit. His dissertation won one of the two main prizes in the national competition for student research papers.^[5] In 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Slavic and East European Studies at University College London, and from 2013 to 2014 at Uppsala University.^[1]