Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel

Stephan Scheel is Professor of Political Sociology at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research interests lie at the intersection of border and migration studies, citizenship studies, critical security studies, and science and technology studies. He is an expert in the field of biometric border control.

Academic Career

• since 2022: Professor of Political Sociology at Leuphana
• 2019-2022: Junior professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen (Transnational Cooperation and Migration Research)
• 2017-2018: Post-Doc in the research project "Processing Citizenship" at the University of Twente, Netherlands
• 2014-2017: Post-Doc in the research project "ARITHMUS - How Data Make a People" at Goldsmith College, University of London
• 2014: PhD in Political and International Studies at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK
• 2010: Magister Artium in Political Science at the University of Hamburg, Germany

Selected Awards

• 2023: ERC Starting Grant "Doing Digital Identities (DigID)“