Naika Foroutan is a professor of integration research and social policy at the Humboldt University of Berlin and deputy director of the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM). Her research and teaching focus on the following subject areas: migration, integration and post-migrant societies, transformation in countries of immigration, and conceptions of Islam and Muslims in Germany, as well as identity and hybridity. She also serves as a board member for the Rat für Migration (Council for Migration).