German social scientist.She has been head of the research group "Young Islam-related topics in Germany" (JUNITED) at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin (HU) since 2011; in June 2015, she was appointed professor of "integration research and social policy" by Humboldt-Universität. In addition, she is secretary of the five-member board of the German Council for Migration; since 2017 she has also been head of the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM).Since May 2018, Foroutan has been the director of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) and has led the "Integration research and social policy" department.