Dr. Katja Jung started working at Freie Universität Berlin in March 2012. As Academic Coordinator of the Research Unit “Intellectual History of the Islamicate World”, she was responsible for its strategic, managerial and organizational aspects. In this capacity, she took a critical role in raising the grant to establish the “MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World”. From April 2013 until June 2018, Katja Jung acted as Managing Director of the MA program. Her responsibilities spread from strategic decision-making and budget control to staff management and international relations. Since July 2018, she is the Academic Director of the MA program. Katja Jung started her academic career with a Magister in political sciences, international law and sociology at Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München and the University of Bath (UK). In 2009, she finished her doctoral studies at the Institute of Sociology, LMU. Her thesis with the title “Volk, Staat, (Welt-) Gesellschaft. Zur Konstruktion von Kollektivität in einer globalisierten Welt” was published in 2010 by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.