Eric Storm studied History at the University of Groningen and Salamanca. He obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen (in 1999) with a dissertation on Spanish political thought between 1890 and 1914. From 2000 until 2002 he was a Grotius-fellow at the University of Amsterdam, where he studied the impact of nationalism and the rise of modern art on the evolution of artistic taste in France, Spain and Germany (1860-1914).
In 2002 he received a NWO-grant (Veni) for a research project on the Visualisation of the region: National and regional identities in art and architecture in France, Germany and Spain (1890-1939), which he finished at the end of 2007. In 2004 he was appointed lecturer in European History at Leiden University. He has been a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2000-01), a fellow-in-residence of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Wassenaar (2007-08) and a Visiting Fellow at Modern European History Research Centre at Oxford University (2016).
