Current Academic Appointments

• February 2007-currently
  Full Professor in Migration and Citizenship Studies (Professeur ordinaire). University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• June 2014 – currently
  Director NCCR on the move, Neuchâtel (nccr-onthemove.ch)
• February 2006 – currently
  Director Swiss Forum for Migration  and Population Studies, Neuchâtel

Previous Academic Appointments

• February 2004-January 2007
  Chargé de cours, Social Science Faculty, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• January 1999-January 2007
  Project Leader Research at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• January 1994-December 1998
  Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Department of Political Theory

Education

1994-1998: PhD in Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Department of Political Theory, University of Potsdam. Grade: Summa Cum Laude. 
1984-1992: MA in Sociology, Social and Economic History, Political Theory, University of Zurich

2014-2026: Director of the NCCR on the move. The migration-mobility nexus, funded by the Swiss Government via SNSF (44 Mio CHF).

• Vidéo : Visite guidée du nccr - on the move

2019-2022: An Improbable Commitment? Explaining Naturalized Citizens’ Political Engagement in the Swiss Social Democratic Party and the Swiss People’s Party, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): Grant: 320’000 CHF

2009-2012: Coordinator SOM (Support and Opposition to Migration. A cross national comparison of the politicization of migration), funded by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7. (1.5 Mio €)

2008-2012: Coordinator MOVE (Mobilité vers l’excellence), funded by the Swiss University Conference. (3 Mio CHF)

2005-2007: Coordinator Migrant’s Transnational Practices in Western Europe, collaborative research network funded by the European Science Foundation (136’000 CHF)

2004-2007: Coordinator SNSF project on Radical Right-Wing Political Parties and Migration Policies in Switzerland (NRP 40+), funded by the SNSF (269‘000 CHF)

2002-2003: Coordinator Transnational Communities: New Social and Political Actors in a Globalized World?, collaborative research network funded by SPP-Demain la Suisse (60’000 CHF)

1999-2003: Coordinator Knowledge transfer program of the Swiss National Research Program 39 „Migration and intercultural relations“, SNSF (400’000 CHF)

Vidéos

Campus pour la démocratie
Les enjeux de la citoyenneté dans un contexte migratoire

nccr - on the move
Rights and Democracy: An Antagonistic Relationship in European Migration Policy?

 Nürnberger Integrationskonferenz
"Zwischen Normalität der Vielfalt und Neuzuwanderung"

Ecole PrEP
New perspectives on the changing migration reality

Integratsiooni Sihtasutus
“Discrimination, the True Challenge to an Inclusive Society. A View from Multicultural Switzerland”

• 2006-2018 : Classiques de la migration (A) ; Classiques de la citoyenneté (P) ; Contemporains de la migration (A) ; Contemporains de la citoyenneté (P)
• 2007/08 : Conflits, multiculturalismes et reconnaissances
• 2008/09 : Séminaire interdisciplinaire : écriture de textes scientifiques
• 2009/10 : Confrontation et civilisation : une ambivalence de la modernité
• 2010/11 : La mafia : organisation entre rébellion primitive et entreprise criminelle ?
• 2011/12 : Confrontation et civilisation : une ambivalence de la modernité
• 2012/13 : Démocratie, populisme et les droits de l'homme
• 2013/14 : Technocratie, démocratie et la crise de l'Europe
• 2014/15 : Démocratie, Populisme et droits de l’homme
• 2017/18 : La démocratie au défi des migrations : perspectives historiques et politiques
• 2018-23 : Migration as a challenge for Democracy: Historical and Political Perspectives
• 2018/19: Mobility Studies: a New Paradigm Enabling to Understand the Perception of Modern Societies? Discussion and Application of Central Concepts
• 2019-2024: Rights to have Rights: Transformation of liberties and rights in times of mobilities
• 2025 : Postcolonialism : Potentials and Fallacies

2012-présent : Colloques des mémorant-e-s

2013-présent : Introduction aux études des migrations