CV

Dr. Dastan Jasim

Computational Social Scientist · Political Scientist
Paris, France  ·  jasim.dastan@gmail.com  ·  ORCID  ·  LinkedIn

Bio

Political scientist and computational social scientist with expertise in democratization studies, political behavior and culture, Middle East and Kurdish studies, and computational text analysis. Research spans field-based mixed-methods work, large-scale survey data, and NLP/LLM applications to political and social questions. Fluent in German, English, French, and Kurdish; experienced researcher, public speaker, and policy advisor.

Education

Professional Experience

Research Engineer – Senior Data Scientist · Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, ACSS-DIG, Paris · 01/2025–present

Methodological Advisor & Software Specialist · CNRS – PROGEDO, Paris · 10/2024–12/2024

Research Fellow · German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg · 10/2020–03/2024

Visiting Researcher · SCRIPTS Forum 2026, Freie Universität Berlin · 08/2026 (confirmed)

Visiting Scholar · Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS), American University of Iraq – Sulaimani · 01–05/2022 and 07–09/2019

Research Assistant – Conflict Barometer · Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) · 2017–2021

Research Assistant · Social Inquiry (NGO), Erbil, Iraq · 04–06/2019

Student Assistant · GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim · 2017–2019

Current Research Projects

Gendered Academic Network Dynamics in French Management Studies · Université Paris Dauphine – PSL · since 2025

Kurdish Media and the Israel–Palestine Conflict · Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies · since 2023 (Volkswagen Foundation)

Stateless AI Governance: Kurdish Language Technologies and the Democratization of Digital Order · SCRIPTS Forum, Freie Universität Berlin · 08/2026

Examines Kurdish language technologies as a case of AI governance without a state: how communities develop digital infrastructure absent sovereign institutions. Analyzes Kurdish NLP corpora, tools, and repositories as contested spaces of democratic participation, recognition, and resource allocation, arguing they constitute an arena of stateless democratization.

Freelance & Consulting

Freelance Researcher · Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum · 2022–present

Political Consultant · The Carter Center (Northeast Syria constitutional process) · 09–10/2022

Initiator & Co-editor · Doppelt unsichtbar — Amadeu Antonio Foundation / KurdAKAD · 2022–2024

Member & Paper Presenter · Decolonizing Kurdish Studies Initiative, Brown University & Yale University · since 2021

Researcher · Anti-Kurdish Discrimination in Berlin Schools · 2020

Teaching

Weltpolitik: Internationale Beziehungen global gedacht · Sciences Po, Campus de Nancy · from 09/2026

University Teaching & Public Training · GIGA Hamburg · 2020–2024

Selected Talks & Panels

• Kurdish Resistance between Iran and Syria, University of Cambridge (2026)
• Tension between Anti-Semitism and Racism, Anne Frank Educational Centre (2024)
• The Ongoing Genocide, De Balie – Amsterdam (2024)
• Afrin: Trapped Between Empires, De Balie – Amsterdam (2023)
• USCIRF Hearing on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Syria, Washington, DC (2022)
• Urban Governance, Social Inclusion and Fragility in MENA, World Bank / UNDP (2022)

Conferences

• Book Launch – Governance of Resistance in North and East Syria (Bloomsbury), LSE (2026)
• Spaces in the History of Democracy, Institut historique allemand, Paris (2026)
• Kurdish Studies Conference, LSE (2025, 2023)
• Diaspora and Indigeneity Workshop, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies (2023)
• MESA Conference, Denver (2022)
• ECPR General Conference (2018–2021)

Reviewer & Expert Contributions

• Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
• British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
• Country Expert & Coder — Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), Iraq and Syria

Skills