Markus Meckl holds a Ph.D. from Berlin Technical University where he studied at the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism. Since 2004, he has been working at the University of Akureyri in Iceland where is a professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. In recent years, one of his research interests focused on immigration issues in Iceland from which a series of articles has been published. Drawing on a broad range of experience including research at Riga University and the Latvian Academy of Culture, he is involved in immigration and integration-related projects in the Nordic and Baltic countries.