Zainab Iftikhar, previously an Assistant Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, conducts research in particular on international migration, family and labor economics, and completed her PhD in 2018 as part of the Economics Erasmus Mundus program of the universities in Bielefeld and the Université Catholique de Louvain. She then worked as an Erasmus Mundus PhD Scholar at Bielefeld University.
“I am very pleased that we were able to hire Zainab as an associate professor for our cluster and the University of Bonn. Her research agenda fits very well to the topics of ECONtribute,” explains Prof. Thomas Dohmen, Bonn spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute.