Council Members
The members of the Expert Council are appointed for three years
The current Council members:
Prof. Dr Winfried Kluth
Chairperson of the Expert Council
Faculty of Law, Economics and Business at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Winfried Kluth is Professor of Public Law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). His work and research focuses include migration law, public commercial law, municipal law, health law, parliamentary law and the theory of legislation. He is Head of the University Halle-Wittenberg’s Migration Law Research Group (FoMig) and Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Cooperative and Collaborative Research (IWE GK).
Prof. Dr Birgit Glorius
Deputy Chairperson of the Expert Council
Institute for European Studies and History (IESG) at Chemnitz University of Technology
Birgit Glorius is Professor of Human Geography with a focus on European Migration Research at Chemnitz University of Technology. Her research focuses on the procedural nature of migration and its consequences for regions of origin and arrival, transnationalism, local constellations of refugee admission, responses in the receiving society and local/regional policy approaches to integration and participation. Regional research focuses include eastern Germany, East-Central Europe and the Western Balkan states. Birgit Glorius is co-editor of Z’Flucht (German Journal of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies) and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).
Prof. Dr Havva Engin
Member of the Expert Council
Heidelberg Centre for Migration Research and Transcultural Pedagogy (Hei-MaT) at Heidelberg University of Education
Havva Engin is Professor of General Pedagogy with a focus on Intercultural Pedagogy at Heidelberg University of Education and Head of the Heidelberg Centre for Migration Research and Transcultural Pedagogy (Hei-MaT). Her work and research focuses include the development of educational institutions in migration societies, interreligious education, religion-based extremism in young people from Muslim families, education for democracy and language acquisition in the context of migration-based multilingualism.
Prof. Dr Marc Helbling
Member of the Expert Council
Department of Sociology and Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) of the University of Mannheim
Marc Helbling is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim, specialising in Migration and Integration. His research focuses on migration and citizenship policy, xenophobia and Islamophobia, populist and extremist attitudes, the root causes of migration, and the integration of migrants. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Prof. Dr Matthias Koenig
Member of the Expert Council
Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology at the Heidelberg University
Matthias Koenig is Professor of Empirical Macrosociology at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology at the University of Heidelberg. His research deals with human rights, migration, religion and sociological theory. One focus of his work is the global and local dynamics when it comes to regulating cultural diversity. He has sat on the boards of various national and international scientific organisations and is currently Vice-President of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Prof. Sandra Lavenex, Ph.D.
Member of the Expert Council
Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva
Sandra Lavenex is Professor of European and International Politics at the University of Geneva and part-time Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland. Her research focuses on regional and international migration policy and its interrelationship with development, trade, humanitarian and security policy, as well as on the external impact on third countries and international organisations of EU integration.
Prof. Dr Birgit Leyendecker
Member of the Expert Council
Faculty of Psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum
Birgit Leyendecker is senior professor at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Family Research (ICFR), part of the Faculty of Psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). Her research focuses include the educational integration of (new) immigrant children and refugee children and families; families and gender diversity; the positive development of immigrant children and their families; and multilingualism. She is a member of the Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
Prof. Panu Poutvaara, PhD
Member of the Expert Council
ifo Center for Migration and Development Economics, ifo institute
Panu Poutvaara is Professor of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and Director of the ifo Center for Migration and Development Economics, ifo Institute. His research focuses include the impact of migration opportunities on human capital formation, family migration, populism, and the welfare effects of immigration.
Prof. Dr Hannes Schammann
Member of the Expert Council
Institute for Social Sciences at the University Hildesheim
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