• Since 12/2025: Research Associate at Qualiservice, SOCIUM, Bremen University • Since 11/2025: Associate at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies • 11/2024-03/2026: Research Consultant at Survivor- Centered Visual Narratives Project at University of Victoria, Canada • 05/2025: Visiting Scientist at the School of Global Studies, Sussex University, UK with a focus on oral traditions and oral history • 10/2024-12/2024: Research for the preparation of the online longread 2024 on “Ten years of ongoing genocide against the Yazidis“, NIOD, Amsterdam • 10/2021-02/2024: Project management: Documentation and education project on the genocide of the Yezidis, FERMAN, Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation • 05/2021-06/2021: Visiting Scientist, NIOD, Amsterdam • 08/2017-12/2021: Coordination and specialist office: Partnership for Democracy in Bergen, Bergen-Belsen Memorial • 09/2014-11/2016: Advisor for International Relations, Mardin Metropolitan Municipality , Turkey Education: • 2014: Dr. phil., Leibniz University Hanover, “Decentralization and ethnic conflicts. Local level and Kurdish Question in Turkey” • 2009: M.A. Political Science, Leibniz University Hanover, Master´s thesis: “Federalism in Iraq: The Post-War Order in Controversy”
Aktuelle Forschung
• The genocide of the Yazidis in Sinjar by the Islamic State; societal, social, political, and international issues • Diverse Remembrance culture in Germany
