Prof Dr. M. Murat ERDOĞAN

He has been the director of MÜGAM (Mülkiye Migration Research Center of Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science) since February 2022. He is a member of the UNESCO-Turkey Communication Committee, a board member of the ISC of Metropolis International, and the President of the Asylum & Migration Association Center-IGAM-Academy. Prof. Erdoğan is a political scientist and migration expert. He was at the Turkish-German University between 2017-2022. He was also the founder and director of the Migration and Integration Research Center of TAGU between November 2017 and May 2021, and the Hacettepe University Migration and Politics Research Center (HUGO) between 2009-2017. He carried out the research for his PhD dissertation from Ankara University, titled “The Relationship between Turkey and the European Union after the Cold War: A Geo-Strategic Perspective: 1990-2005,” as a Konrad Adenauer Foundation fellow at Bonn and Freiburg universities in Germany between 1994 and 1999. He served as an advisor to the President of the Turkish Higher Education Council and to the Rector of Hacettepe University (2012-2016). Prof. Erdoğan carried out studies as a visiting researcher with different fellowships at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2007), Berlin-Humboldt (2010), Oxford University (2012), Johns Hopkins University-AICGS (2014), and Humboldt University (2019). He was a fellow at CATS (Centre for Applied Türkiye Studies) of SWP (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - German Institute for International and Security Affairs) in Berlin between April 2022 and January 2023. His academic research interests include voluntary and forced migration, refugees, people of Turkish origin living abroad, the EU, political cartoons, political behavior, Islamophobia, and German and Turkish foreign policy. He conducts comprehensive public opinion research on a regular basis and publishes particularly the “Euro-Turks Barometer” on the Turkish diaspora in Europe, and the “Syrians Barometer” on Syrians in Turkey.