CV

Education
  • 2023: Completed doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main on the topic "Adam in the Quran, Quranic exegesis and Syrian treasure cave - narration of the story of Adam in isrāʾīliyyāt traditions in the face of Syrian-Christian sources"
  • 2018-2023: Doctoral candidate at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Studies in the Culture and Religion of Islam
  • 2014- 2016: Master's programme "Religious Studies and History of Religion" at Marmara University, Istanbul
  • 2009-2014: Bachelor's degree programme "International Islamic Theology" at Marmara University in Istanbul
  • 2000-2009: Theodor- Heuss- Gymnasium Recklinghausen (Abitur)
Work experience
  • Since 08/2024: Tenure Track Professorship of Islamic Theology at the University of Vienna, Department of Islamic-Theological Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
  • 2023-2024: Research assistant (post-doc) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, at the Chair of "Islamic Textual Studies (Qur'an and Hadith)"
  • 2020-2023: Research assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin, at the Chair of "Islamic Law in History and the Present"
  • 2019-2020: Representation of the Junior Professorship for Islamic Theology at the Academy of World Religions, University of Hamburg
  • 2017-2018: Research assistant at Marmara University Istanbul, Department of History and Science of Religion
  • 2016-2018: Employee of the Centre for Qurʾanic Studies (Turkish: KURAMER), Istanbul
  • 2016-2017: Research assistant at Istanbul 29th May University, Department of History and Science of Religion
Academic activities
  • Since 2024: Tenure-Track-Professor for Islamic Theology, University of Vienna
  • 2023-2024: Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Islamic Theology
  • Since 08/2023: Research assistant (post-doc) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, at the Chair of Islamic Textual Studies (Qur'an and Hadith)
  • 2020-2022: Research assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin, at the Chair of "Islamic Law in History and the Present" as part of the AIWG Longterm Research Group "Linked Open Tafsīr"
  • 2020-2024: Lecturer at the Academy of World Religions at the University of Hamburg
  • 10/2019-09/2020: Deputy Junior Professor of Islamic Theology at the Academy of World Religions at the University of Hamburg
  • 2018-2020: Fellow of the DFG Research Training Group 1728 "Theology as Science" and research assistant in the Department 06 Protestant Theology
  • 2014-2018: Scholarship holder of the Islamic Research Centre (turk. ISAM) as part of the "Research Training Program" (turk. AYP), Istanbul
  • 2012-2014: Fellow of the Islamic Research Center (Turkish: ISAM) as part of the academic support programme for students of Islamic theology (Turkish: LADEP) with a focus on "Classical Islamic scientific disciplines"
  • 2010-2011: Fellow of the Islamic Research Center (Turkish: ISAM) as part of the academic support programme for students of International Islamic Theology (Turkish: ULADEP) with a focus on "Muslim-Christian encounters in the past and present"