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

2021

Visiting Scholar, New York University Abu Dhabi

2022-2023

Visiting Professor of Islamic Law, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster

since 2019

Associate Editor, Arab Law Quarterly (Brill)

since 2023

Research Fellow, Collaborative Research Centre 1385 “Law and Literature”, 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
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