Tobias Hof is Privatdozent for Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Between 2014 and 2018 he was the DAAD Visiting Professor for German and European Studies at the History Department and Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before he joined the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis and a research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin. He has held grants and fellowships from the DAAD, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and the Max Weber Foundation.

His research focuses on the history of terrorism and counterterrorism as well as the history of violence, fascism, and humanitarianism. He is the author of Staat und Terrorismus in Italien 1969-1982 (Oldenbourg, 2011), Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (University of Toronto Press, 2021) and Geschichte des Terrorismus von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (UTB, 2022) as well as many journal articles and book chapters on his research interests.

His current projects focus on the global emergency aid for Ethiopia in the 1970s/80s and the perception and reception of popular fantasy and science fiction novels as well as films within the far-right milieu.