I am Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.
My research addresses concepual and empirical questions of border security, territoriality, technology and practices. It combines insights from Critical Security Studies, Political Geography and Postcolonial Theory. My current work is concerned with Eurocentric accounts with respect to the emergence of modern forms of population and territorial control.
My previous research, funded by a VENI grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), examined the daily governance of migration and borders in Turkey. More information on this research can be obtained under the TRANSIT tab.
I am President (2023-2025) of the European International Studies Association (EISA), to which I was elected as Governing Board member in 2021. Before becoming President, I was managing the EISA's European Workshops in International Studies portfolio (2021-2023).
I am Editor and Rotating Editor-in-Chief (2022-2027) of International Political Sociology, which is an official journal of the International Studies Association. I am also on the editorial advisory board of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
I am co-leader of the 'Europe in the World' theme of Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) Amsterdam Centre for European Studies. I am co-convener (with Tasniem Anwar) of the ACES Online Series 'Decolonising Europe' Decolonising Europe.
I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Tübingen (2014) with a scholarship by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the 'Europe and the World' theme of ACCESS EUROPE at the University of Amsterdam (2014-2015).
I teach courses in International Relations, Decolonial/Postcolonial Studies and European politics. I was Guest Faculty at the International Political Sociology Winter School at the Instituto de Relações Internacionais at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2023.