Florian Mühlfried is Professor of Social Anthropology at Ilia State University (Georgia). Previously, he worked as a lecturer at Tbilisi State University (Georgia), a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany), a visiting professor at the State University of Campinas (Brazil), and an assistant professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany). His current research interests focus on the darker side of life, centering around issues such as mistrust and nightmares.