Ruud Koopmans is director of the research department “Migration,

Integration, Transnationalization” at the WZB Berlin Social Science

Center and Professor of Sociology and Migration Research at

Humboldt University Berlin. He is a member of the Academic

Advisory Board of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees

(BAMF), Nuremberg and of the Board of Trustees of the German

Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). His current

research focuses are migration and integration, religious

fundamentalism and extremism, and majority and minority rights.

His most recent books deal with the crisis of the Islamic world

(The Crumbling House of Islam, which recently appeared in Dutch

and will appear in German in early 2020), and the new political

cleavage around globalization (The Struggle over Borders.

Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism, with Pieter de Wilde et al.;

Cambridge University Press, 2019).