Academic Career
2004-2010
Study of Middle East Studies and Law at the University of Hamburg and Columbia University in the City of New York
2010
M.A. in Middle East Studies (University of Hamburg)
2010-2013
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
2013-2014
Acting Junior Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Middle East Studies, University of Hamburg
2014
Ph.D. in Law (University of Hamburg); recipient of the Doctoral Prize of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg and the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
2014-2018
Adjunct Professor at the University of Augsburg
2014-2019
Senior Research Fellow, Research Group: “Changes in God's Law: An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
2015-2016
Member of the research initiative "The Gulf Family", Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar
2016
Visiting Professor of Islamic Law, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster
2019-2020
Co-President, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2019-2021
Acting Professor of Islamic Law, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig
2021-2022
Parental leave
since 2019
Associate Editor, Arab Law Quarterly (Brill)
2022-2023
Visiting Professor of Islamic Law, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster
Memberships:
- Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Commission on Legal Pluralism
- Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient
- Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht
- Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung
- International Society for Islamic Legal Studies
- Middle East Studies Association