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Ingmar Weber is the Research Director for Social Computing at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. His interdisciplinary research uses large amounts of online data from social media and other sources to study human behavior. Particular topics of interest include quantifying international migration using digital methods, tracking digital gender gaps, mapping social inequalities, and precision public health. Before joining the Qatar Computing Research Institute he studied and worked at the University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and Yahoo Research. Ingmar’s research has been cited over 7000 times and he serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Ingmar Weber is the research director of the Social Computing Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). His interdisciplinary research looks at what online user-generated data can tell us about the offline world and society at large. Particular topics of interest include (i) monitoring international migration, (ii) tracking digital gender gaps, and (iii) mapping poverty.

Natasha Webster is a researcher at the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University. She is interested in gender, migration and work(ing)-life practices. Natasha's current research focuses on feminist economic geography by exploring the role of platform-mediatted work-social practices in migration and integration. Natasha is currently co-editing a special issue for Globalizations on transnational migrant entrepreneurs. Natasha, following her interests of gender in the workplace, co-edited a 2019 special issue on Early Career Women in Geography for Geografiska Annaler B. Natasha is a Book Review Editor for Emotion, Space and Society and is part of the editorial board for Digital Geography and Society.

PhD in Human Geography (Stockholm University), M.Sc.Pl Specialization in Urban Planning (University of Toronto), BA Honours in Human Geography (Queen’s University, Canada)

I am working as PostDoc at the Chair of Cultural Geography and Development Research at the Institute of Geography of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where I am focusing on the topics immigration to rural areas, rural tourism and regional development. I graduated in Cultural Geography from the same university and hold a B.A. and M.A. (with distinction) degree as well as a PhD. I am active member of the “Working Group Rural Spaces” (“Arbeitskreis Ländliche Räume”) and "Working Group Geographical Migration Research" (Arbeitskreis Geographische Migrationsforschung) within the German Association of Geography (DGfG). Since 2016, I am also member of the German “Refugee Research Network” (“Netzwerk Fluchtforschung”).

Education
2003–2009: Studies in Political Science, Medival and Modern History, Public Law, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Master of Arts)

Professional Background
2010: Regional Assistant to a Member of the State Parliament of Hesse, Rüsselsheim/Wiesbaden, Germany
2010–2012: Scientific Assistant at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Nürnberg, Germany
2012–2017: Scientific Assistant at the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration, Berlin, Germany
2017–2018: Scientific Assistant at the Institute for Social Work and Social Education, Frankfurt, Germany
Since 2018: Research Fellow at the Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany

Anja Weiß (Dr. phil., Humboldt University Berlin) is Professor for Sociology with a focus on macrosociology and transnational processes at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her theoretical interests in global and transnational inequalities translate into comparative empirical studies on highly skilled migrants, the glocalization of professional knowledge, (institutional) racism and legal exclusion, ethnic conflict and anti-racism, and qualitative research design. Her major publications include a country comparative study on high skilled migrants’ trajectories into the labor markets in Germany, Turkey and Canada which also focuses on refugees (with Nohl, Schittenhelm and Schmidtke: Work in Transition, Toronto UP 2014) and a sociological perspective on global inequalities (Soziologie Globaler Ungleichheiten, Suhrkamp 2017, English article: "The transnationalization of social inequality”, Current Sociology 53(4)) as well as a Bourdieuan theorization of racism (German book and: "The racism of globalization" Macedo/ Gounari (eds.). The globalization of racism. Boulder, CL; 2006). Recent articles are on transnationally comparative research designs in migration research and the ways in which professional knowledge in the medical field is both context-bound and universal.

Carole Wenger is a PhD candidate for the ERC-funded project “Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-) crisis Europe”, under the supervision of Jean-Michel Lafleur at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies, University Liège. Carole Wenger joined the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies a PhD candidate for the ERC-funded project “Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-) crisis Europe”, under the supervision of Jean-Michel Lafleur. Her research focuses on Tunisian migrants and transnational healthcare practices between Tunisia and Europe. Her research interests include transnationalism, social protection, health, and the Maghreb region.