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Since April 2023, Katharina Nicolai has been serving as a research associate at the Chair of Politics and Society of the Middle East at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, where she is involved in both research and teaching. She is responsible for the Master's program in Middle Eastern Studies in her role as program coordinator. Prior to this role, she worked from 2018 to 2023 as a research associate at the Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE). In 2024, she is set to complete her doctorate on 'The Emerald Kingdom: Environmental Sustainability, Authoritarian Resilience, Foreign Policy Dominance Morocco', for which she was awarded the DAVO Dissertation Prize in 2024. She was also a doctoral fellow in the 'Trajectories Change' program at the ZEIT Foundation from 2018 to 2020 and received a doctoral fellowship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation from 2020 to 2023. Nicolai has conducted extensive research in the fields of climate politics and political ecology in West Asia and North Africa (WANA), democracy and autocracy studies, soft power and legitimation, comparative political systems, transitional justice, and political culture and cultural policy in the Maghreb.
Chair of Politics and Society of the Middle East • Erlangen, Germany
Conducting research and teaching in the area of Middle Eastern studies, responsible for the Master's program.
Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE) • Erlangen, Germany
Research on the intersections of Islam, law, and society in Europe.
Department of Computer Science. Program involves a Qualification Assessment Process (QAP).