I am a lead research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. My work focuses on the intersection between forced migration, sustainable adaptation to global environmental change, and socio-political upheaval, and on the interactions between mobility control and state making. My regional focus is mainly on the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Turkey), where I have conducted extensive field research, but I am also engaged in cross-regional comparative projects, including the DAAD-funded Climate Centre “Sustainable Adaptation to Global Change in the Middle East” (SAGE-Centre) based at An-Najah University in Palestine, and the EU-funded consortium „Migration Governance and Asylum Crises (MAGYC)”. I hold a PhD from the Center for Conflict Studies at Marburg University,  a Master in Peace and Security Studies from Hamburg University, and an M.A. in English literature, Contemporary History and Psychology from Hamburg and Warwick Universities.

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