Dr. Leandros Fischer holds a M.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cologne and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Center of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg. His research focuses on citizenship, migration and mobility in Cyprus, as well as on the public debate on the issue of Palestine in contemporary Germany, particularly among the left. He has held faculty positions at Aalborg University and has taught and researched at the University of Marburg, the Cyprus University of Technology, the University of Cyprus, Aalborg University, the University of Cape Town, and the National Center of Competence in Research – The Migration-Mobility Nexus in Neuchâtel. He is the editor of the volume The Crisis-Mobility Nexus (Palgrave, 2023).​