Alumni
Dr. Tobias Zumbrägel is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the department for Human Geography at Heidelberg University. Prior to this, he worked at CARPO as well as at the Cluster for Excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)’ at the University of Hamburg, where he is also an Associate Fellow. He studied History, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies in Cologne, Tuebingen and Cairo and holds a Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is the author of Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies (Palgrave 2022).
Tobias publishes regularly in international journals and other media outlets. He further provides political analysis on political and socioeconomic developments in the Middle East (with a particular focus on the Gulf region) and is consulted by German and international political institutions and organizations. His regional foci are the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt.
