Services to the Academic Community (selection)

Since 2022 First Speaker of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies

Mentor in the Kaldor Centre Displaced Scholars Peer Mentoring Program

Since 2021 Member of the Ethics Advisory Board, EU Horizon2020 Project “HABITABLE – Linking Climate Change, Habitability and Social Tipping Points: Scenarios for Climate Migration“.

Since 2020 Member of the Academic Advisory Council of “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT)

Since 2018 Member of the Executive Board of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies

2017 – 2021 co-lead of the working group “Research and Practice”, German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK)

2018 – 2019 speaker of GIGA Ethics Committee

(Co-)Organiser of international expert workshops and conferences:

2024 Global Centres Mid-Term Conference, Berlin

2024 5th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, Uni Bonn/BICC

2024 Workshop to develop Ethical Guidelines for Forced Migration Research in Germany

2022 4th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, TU Chemnitz

2022 GLOBE22 Festival

2020-2022 Zooming in on Migration and Asylum series

2019 “Forced Migration Governance in Most of the World”, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg.

2018 “Natural Resources in the MENA region – Building a sustainable future under difficult conditions”, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg.

2017 “Anthropocene Mobilities”, Universität Hamburg.

2017 “Beyond Climate Migration”, Istanbul Policy Center, Istanbul.

2016 “Migration and the Conflict Cycle”, Universität Hamburg.

Co-founder and co-facilitator of an international expert network on the topic of Gender, conflict and climate change. In this framework co-organiser of several international workshops on the topic of “Gendering a Sustainable Future”:

2015 “Gendering a Sustainable Future: Migration, Conflict and Climate Change”, Universität Hamburg.

2014 “Gendering a Sustainable Future: Water, Conflict and Climate Change”, in cooperation with UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), Colombella, Italien.

2013 “Gendering a Sustainable Future: Gender, Genocide and Climate Change”, Universität Hamburg.

I am also a reviewer for various scientific outlets and institutions as well as a supervisor of undergraduate and graduate theses.