Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Since 08/2012: Professor of Contemporary Middle East Studies - University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark

Since 08/2012: Associate Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

2010 - 2012: KAS resident representative to Amman (covering Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria) - Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Jordan

2007 - 2012: Senior Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies, responsible for politics, society and socio-economic development of the Near East (Israel/Jordan/Lebanon/Palestine/Syria) and Senior Lecturer ("Privatdozent"), Hamburg University, Germany

Winter term 2007/2008: Acting Chair for International Relations at the University of Bremen, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS)

2005 - 2006: Three trimesters Acting Chair for International Relations at the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg

2004: Senior Fellow and Lecturer, German Institute for Middle East Studies, Hamburg; "Privatdozent", Hamburg University

2001-2004: Visiting Associate Professor and DAAD Representative, Department for History and Political Science, Birzeit University, West Bank, DAAD Information Office, East Jerusalem

2001:Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification), University of Tübingen , granting of the ‚venia legendia’ for political science". Thesis on ‘Rationality, Cooperation and Political Rent: The Peace Process in the Middle East and the Development of the Palestinian Autonomous Territories.

1990-2000: Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen

1994: Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, Colorado, USA

Studies of Political Science and German Linguistics and Literature at the University of Tübingen

International and regional Oil Politics

Arab Spring

Regional Politics and Regional Powers in the Middle East

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Middle East (esp. Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria)