Prof. Dr Dr Rauf Ceylan
Member of the Expert Council
Institute for Islamic Theology at Osnabrück University
Rauf Ceylan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Osnabrück University. His research activities focus on the sociology of migration and religion and examine the Turkish community in the diaspora. He is a founding member and Chair of the Avicenna-Studienwerk scholarship organisation. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). Since 2024 he has been Principal Investigator in the “Mosques and the Production of Belonging” project, part of the German Research Foundation’s Collaborative Research Centre 1604 “Production of Migration”.
Professional background:
- Degree in social pedagogy at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, 1996–2001
- Pre-doctoral studies for university of applied sciences graduates in social pedagogy, sociology and political science at Ruhr University Bochum, 2001–2006
- Researcher, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and collaborative position at the Institute for Housing, Real Estate and Urban and Regional Development (InWIS) at Ruhr University Bochum, 2001–2006
- Doctor of Social Science (Dr. rer. soc.) in sociology, awarded “magna cum laude”, at the Faculty of Social Science, Ruhr University Bochum, 2006
- Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.) in the sociology of religion, awarded “summa cum laude”, at the Institute for Catholic Theology, University of Vechta, 2014
- Visiting Professor, University of Zürich, winter semester 2018/19
- Professor of the Sociology of Religion, Osnabrück University, 2009–2018
- Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Osnabrück University, since 2019
