Mona Bieling researches the connections between colonialism and the environment in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her doctoral dissertation examined how landscape changes during the British Mandate for Palestine influenced the power relations between the British Mandatory government, the Zionist Movement, and the local Arab Palestinian population. Her postdoctoral project focuses on the production, circulation, and adaptation of botanical knowledge between the German Empire and Zionism.

Mona is a postdoctoral fellow at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg. She holds a PhD in International History and Politics from the Geneva Graduate Institute and has previously been a Rachel Carson Landhaus Fellow.