Academic Career
2003-2007
Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg and the Institut National des Langues et des Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) Paris (Erasmus Scholarship), Zwischenprüfung+2
2007-2008
M.A. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
2009-2015
DPhil (Ph.D.) in Oriental Studies at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
2012
Visiting scholar at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg
2014-2015
Visiting fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School
2016
Co-Winner of the 2016 BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University
2015-2017
Early Career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Goettingen Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Goettingen.
since 2017
Research Fellow at the Institute
Memberships
- Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
- German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO)
- Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA)