Work experience

Current positions

Senior Research fellow – GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
Principal Investigator – “Regional Centre for Sustainable Adaptation to Global Change in the Middle East” (SAGE Centre), Team Governance and Ethics, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Federal Foreign Office.
First Speaker – German Network for Forced Migration Studies
Member of Academic Advisory Board – Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT)
Ethics Advisor – EU Horizon2020 project “HABITABLE – Linking Climate Change, Habitability and Social Tipping Points: Scenarios for Climate Migration“.

Previous positions

Work package lead – “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)
Non-Resident Fellow – Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg (IFSH)
Postdoc – Climate Change and Security – Universität Hamburg, DFG cluster of excellence “Climate System Analysis and Prediction” (CliSAP) / CEN.
Research fellow – Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at Hamburg University (IFSH).
Mercator-IPC Fellow – Istanbul Policy Center – Sabancı University, Istanbul.
Acting professor – International Security Policy and Conflict Studies – Helmut-Schmidt-University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.
Researcher for Peace Studies – Protestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. Co-editor of the German Peace Report (2009-2011).