Work experience
Current position(s)
Research fellow – Forced Migration – GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg.
Work package leader – “Comparing Crises. Lessons from «migration crises» in North Africa, the Middle East and the Greater Horn of Africa”. EU Horizon2020 project “Migration Governance and Asylum Crises” (MAGYC).
Co-leader – Working Group “Research and Practice” – German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Member of Executive Board – German Network Forced Migration Studies.
2016 – 2017
Postdoc – Climate Change and Security – Universität Hamburg, CliSAP / CEN.
Research fellow – Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at Hamburg University (IFSH).
Mercator-IPC Fellow – Istanbul Policy Center – Sabancı University, Istanbul.
2015 – 2016
Acting professor – International Security Policy and Conflict Studies – Helmut-Schmidt-University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.
2013 – 2015
Postdoc – Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at Hamburg University (IFSH), DFG cluster of excellence “Climate System Analysis and Prediction” (CliSAP) at Hamburg University.
2011-2013
Independent peace and conflict researcher.
2004-2011
Researcher for Peace Studies – Protestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. Co-editor of the German Peace Report (2009-2011).