Professor Dr Ruud Koopmans is Director of the Research Area “Migration and Diversity” at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Professor of Sociology at Humboldt University Berlin and permanent guest Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on immigrant integration as well as on European integration, and was involved in two earlier large EU-funded projects (EUROPUB in the 5th and EURISLAM in the 7th Framework Programme).

His work on migration also resonates in policy circles, as evidenced for instance by two recent projects funded by German federal ministries and by his membership of the Scientific Advisory Council of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).