Martin Beck completed his academic education in Tübingen, earning a doctorate in social sciences in 1994, and later obtaining habilitation and venia legendi in political science in 2001. He is currently on leave from his position as chair of International Relations and Security Studies at the University of Kurdistan Hêwler (UKH) to serve as a substitute for the Middle Eastern Politics chair at the Philipps University of Marburg. Additionally, Martin Beck is associated with the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and works as an Associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He has previously worked at various universities, research institutes, and think tanks in Europe (Tübingen, Hamburg, Bremen, and Odense), the USA (Denver, Colorado), and the Middle East (Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq). His research primarily focuses on international relations and political economy, particularly the Arab-Israeli conflict, regional oil politics, rentier states, policies of securitization, and Mediterranean politics, with a specific emphasis on migration.