The members of the Scientific Advisory Board

Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Osnarbrück at the Institute of Psychology in the Department of Human Sciences and member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS). She researches and teaches in the areas of prejudice, discrimination, identity processes and intergroup conflicts. In addition to numerous publications, Julia Becker is co-author of the publication "Antecedents and Consequences of Autonomy- and Dependency-Oriented Help Towards Refugees" (European Journal of Social Psychology, 2019).

Eddie Bruce Jones is Professor of Law at SOAS University of London. He holds a PhD from the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin and an LLM in International Law from King's College London School of Law. His research and policy work focuses on state violence in Europe and deaths in custody. Dr. Eddie Bruce-Jones is the author of "Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe" (Routledge, 2017).

Professor of Methods of International Comparative Social Research at the University of Cologne and Professor of Sociology and Co-Head of the University Research Priority Program Social Networks at the University of Zurich. Between 2015 and 2017, he was President of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA). He is co-editor of the journals Survey Research Methods, Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences and Methods, Data, Analysis as well as an advisory board member of several journals such as Social Science Research and Social Problems. His research interests focus on structural equation modeling, particularly as applied to cross-cultural and longitudinal survey data.

Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Previously, she was director of the Critical Gender Studies program at the University of California in San Diego. She is the author of the books "Black Germans. 'Rasse' und nationale Identität 1890-1933" (Campus, 2001), "European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe" (University of Minnessota Press, 2011) and "Undeutsch. Die Konstruktion des Anderen in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft" (Transcript, 2016). In her current research projects, Fatima El-Tayeb examines the intersecting legacies of colonialism, fascism and socialism in Europe and the potential of alliances of (queer) people of color for the decolonization of Europe.

Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and subsequently as a junior professor in Utrecht. Fenella Fleischmann works at the interface between sociology and social and intercultural psychology. Her research currently focuses on sociology in general and the study of inequalities in relation to work, education and the life course in particular, as well as the significance of politics and institutions for stratification processes.

Professor of Educational Science with a focus on migration at the Faculty of Educational Science at Bielefeld University. Previously, he was Professor of Educational Science at the Department of Education at the University of Oldenburg and at the Institute of Education at the University of Innsbruck. His teaching and research interests include migration and subjectivation, racism and belonging, cultural studies and pedagogical professionalism. Paul Mecheril has (co-)authored eleven and (co-)edited 31 books.