Short CV

Education and academic degrees                                                                                                         

PhD (Dr. phil.), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland, 2003

M.A. (lic. Phil I) in Social Anthropology, Sociology of Mass Communications and        Criminology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1997

Current positions                                                                   

• Vice-Chancellor (vice-rectrice) Teaching and Educational Innovations (since 1.2.2026), Université de Neuchâtel
• Full Professor of Transnational Studies (since 2007)
• Project leader in the nccr-on the move (since 2014)
• Director of MAPS, University of Neuchâtel (since 2007)
• Mercator Fellow, Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1604,  Production of Migration, University of Osnabrück, Germany (since 2024)
• President of the Swiss Association for Gender Studies (since 2019)
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Current Board Memberships

• Board Member of the IMISCOE Standing Committee ‘reflexive migration studies’ (2019-2025 co-director SC, since 2026 board member) 
• Member of the Editorial Board of Transnational Mobilities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration Research, Policy, and Practice Across Borders (since 2025)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (since 2024) 
• Member of the  Scientific Advisory Board, Journal of Migration Studies, edited by IMIS, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (since 2021)
• Board member of the research project Diversity, Trust, and Two-Way Integration (Mobile Futures), funded by the Strategic Research Council (SRC) established within the Academy of Finland, 2021–2027. 
• Member of ‘Global (De)Center https://globaldecentre.org/ (since 2020)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Geschlechterfragen/Questions de Genre/Gender Issues (Editing House Seismo) (since 2019) 
• Board of directors of the Swiss Society of Gender Studies (https://www.gendercampus.ch/en/sggf/home) (since 2014), since 2019 President of the SAGS 
• Editorial board of Studia ethnologica Croatica (http://hrcak.srce.hr/sec?lang=en) 
• Member of the editorial board of the collection “Social cohesion and cultural pluralism”, Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel, Seismo (since 2009)

Employment history/past positions

• Co- and Funding Director (with Andreas Pott) of the IMISCOE Standing Committee ‘reflexive migration studies’ (2019-2025)
• Co- director of the LAPS, University of Neuchâtel (2007-2025) 
• Visiting Professor, Open University, Migration, Global Challenges and Social Justice Research      Center and Open Psychology Research Centre, London, UK (Dec-January 2023) 
• Visting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada (Fall 2022)
• Invited research Fellow, University of Osnabrück, Institut für Migrationsforschung und interkulturelle Studien (January, May 2019)
• Visiting Researcher, Middlesex University, Social Policy Research Centre, London (Mai-June 2015)
• Visiting Research Fellow, City University of New York, Graduate Centre, Sociology      Department (March-April 2015)
• Visiting Professor (Gastprofessorin), Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University  of Vienna, Austria (Fall, 2011)
• Vice Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Neuchâtel, 2009-2011

Past board memberships  

• Membre de la Commission Suisse pour l’UNESCO 2017-2023
• Member of the supervisory board of the editing house Seismo books 2016-2024 
• Member of the award committee the IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Prize for the best dissertation, 2012-2020
• Member of the commission ‘Prix Jubilé’ of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012-2015
• Member of the Research Commission of the SNSF of the University of Neuchâtel, 2011-2014
• Member of the steering committee, 6th program of the Network of Mentoring for women of French speaking Switzerland, 2010-2012
• Member of the Review Panel, HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area, Joint Research Program “Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation”, European Science Foundation, 2009-2012
• Co-director of the Prodoc graduate program « Gender Practices and Perspectives: The Paradoxes of Equality », in cooperation with the Universities of Lausanne (Lead), Geneva and the graduate Institute Geneva. Financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CUS), 2008-2011
• Referee and expert for the Ministry of health of Germany: Evaluation of projects aiming at       improving the access of migrants to the addiction support system, 2008
• Member of the supervisory board of the AOZ (Asyl Organisation Zürich), 2007-2017
• Editorial board of NQF – Nouvelles Questions Féministes, revue internationale francophone, 2005-2013
• Member of the board of directors of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population, Switzerland, 2005-2006