Robert Frost, University of Aberdeen, was appointed to the Chair in Early Modern History and as Head of School for Divinity, History and Philosophy in September 2004. Professor Frost joined the University from King's College, London, where he was Reader in Early Modern History and Head of the History Department. His main interests lie in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in particular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is also interested in the history of warfare in northern and eastern Europe form the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Thirty Years War and the history of Sweden.

Professor Frost has published After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993) and The Northern Wars: War State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558 - 1721 (Longmans, Harlow, 2000). He is currently working on The Oxford History of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385 - 1815 for Oxford University Press.