Hometown: Berlin, Germany

Education: I studied Political science, Romance studies and Islamic studies at the University of Cologne. From 2000 to 2004, I completed my PhD at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and started as a junior lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin in the Otto-Suhr Institute of Political Science. In 2008 I started working as a researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where I was appointed as a professor in 2015.

Academic & Research Interests: Transformation of immigrant countries into post migrant societies, Islam and minority policies, radicalization, racism, and Islamism.

Recent Positions: Apart of being a full professor for Integration Studies and Social Policies at the Department of Social Science at the Humboldt-University now, I also head a department at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM) and I am Director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). This is a government funded research center in Berlin with more than 200 colleagues.

Why I chose CGES: I am at CGES as a visiting researcher on invitation of my wonderful colleague Prof. Katrin Sieg. I am doing research on comparing racisms in the US and Germany and I am also doing basic research for my new book on Pan-Progressivism and Middle Eastern Futurism.