since May 2017 member of the International Advisory Board of Mediterranean Politics
May 2016 - April 2017 Sabbatical
since 2014 member of the Advisory Board of the Zeit-Stiftung's Ph.D. programme "Trajectories of change. Ph.D. Scholarships in Humanities and Social Sciences"
2014-2015 Project Director »The Fragmentation of Syria«
2012-2015 Project Director »Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World«
March - August 2008 Sabbatical, Guest Researcher at the Carnegie Middle East Office in Beirut, Lebanon
October 2006 - June 2012 Head of Research Division Middle East and Africa
Since October 2001 Researcher in the Research Division Middle East and Africa
Areas of Expertise:
Political systems,
Israel,
Middle East,
Palestinian Territories,
Syria,
Civil wars,
Fragile states,
Middle East conflict,
Regional and interstate conflicts
The Arab-Israeli conflict, political Islam, as well as German, European and US-American policies towards the region, security in the Eastern Mediterranean
