Education
Doctorate Political Science (Dr. rer. pol., magna cum laude), Institute of Political Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany, 08/2009-11/2012
M.A. Peace and Conflict Studies, Institute of Political Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany, 10/2006-07/2008
B.A. European History, University of Mannheim, Germany, 03/2004-06/2006, with studies abroad at the University of Southampton, UK (ERASMUS)
Academic positions
Professor of Political Science with a Focus on Constitution and Politics of Gender Relations, Institute for Political Science, University of Münster, Germany, since 08/2024
Professor of Social Work in Migration Society, Münster University of Applied Sciences, since 03/2024
Junior Professor of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Institute for Social Sciences, Osnabrück University, Germany, 01/2019-02/2024
Junior Professor of Global Governance and Humanitarian Action, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, 02/2018-12/2018
Visiting Research Fellow, Refugee Studies Centre Oxford and Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK, 01/2017-03/2017
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, Germany, 09/2013-01/2018
- PI of the project “Global Refugee Protection and Local Refugee Engagement”, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, 05/2016-01/2018
- PostDoc in the project “Gender Relations in Confined Spaces”, led by Susanne Buckley-Zistel, 09/2013-10/2014 and 03/2015-04/2016
- Lecturer (parental leave substitution), 10/2014-03/2015
Adjunct Lecturer, Institute of Political Science, University of Kassel, Germany, 04/2012-07/2013
Non-academic employment and consultancies
Consultant, Children’s Rights Section, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn, Germany, 07/2013
Technical Advisor for Peacebuilding, Human Rights and Gender, World Vision Germany, Friedrichsdorf, Germany, 07/2011-06/2013
Technical Advisor, Human Rights Program, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Kampala, Uganda, 07/2010-04/2011
Consultant, Communications, United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF), Kampala, Uganda, 03/2010-07/2010
Junior Technical Advisor, DED Refugee/IDP Program, German Development Service, Kampala and Arua, Uganda, 06/2008-07/2009
Internships: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 2008; United Nations, Senior Leadership Appointment Section in the Department of Field Support as well as Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, USA, 2007; Goethe Institute Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
Selection of administrative responsibilities at universities
Deputy member of the Commission for Research and Academic Qualification (KFWQ), Department 06 – Education and Social Sciences, University of Münster, since 10/2024
Chair of the Central Commission for Gender Equality, Osnabrück University, 07/2020-07/2023
Representative for Sub-Saharan Africa/East Africa, Osnabrück University, 04/2020-02/2024
Member of the Central Commission for Research and the Promotion of Young Academics, Osnabrück University, 06/2019-02/2024
Member of the Central Commission for Research Ethics, Osnabrück University, 06/2019-02/2024
Member of the working group Internationalization, Osnabrück University, 06/2020-05/2023
Member of Teaching Coordination, IFHV, Ruhr University Bochum, 03/2018-12/2018
Member of the Jour Fix, Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, 2015
Support of academic associations and committees
Ethics advisor, ERC-Project “Mixed (ar)rivals: Perceptions of threat, inequality, and the risk of violence between different (forced) migrant groups in North Africa” (MixedRivals), Prof Dr Heidrun Bohnet, Krems University, since 2024
Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Funding Initiative “Forced Migration”, Gerda Henkel Foundation, since 04/2022
Member of the Advisory Board of the project “New localism. Resource of peaceful conflict resolution in urban and rural areas”, FU Berlin, since 02/2022
Second Chair of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, since 10/2018, board member since 2014
Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), 07/2021-08/2022
Member of the Advisory Board, project “Monitoring and evaluation of Protection Concepts for displaced people in accommodation centers”, DeZIM, 09/2019-12/2020
Member of Advisory Board, “Flight as a security problem”, Ruhr University Bochum, 04/2019-05/2020
Member Board of the of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK), 03/2016-04/2018
Co-convenor and co-coordinator of the Working Group Forced Migration and Gender, German Network for Forced Migration Studies, 11/2015-10/2021
Editorial functions
Member of the Advisory Board of the German Journal for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies (Nomos), since 11/2023
Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford University Press), since 09/2021
Co-convener and co-editor of the German Journal for Migration Studies, since 01/2019
Co-convener and co-editor of the German Journal for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, 07/2016-07/2023
Convener and editor of the FluchtforschungsBlog, German Network for Forced Migration Studies, since 02/2015; co-editor since 10/2018-09/2023