Professor Daniel Thym holds the Jean-Monnet-Chair of European, International and Public Law at the University of Konstanz (Germany). He serves as managing director of the 'Research Centre Immigration & Asylum Law' in Konstanz, after having previously worked at Humboldt-University in Berlin. Thym regularly appears as an expert witness in the home affairs committee of the German Bundestag, contributes to the pan-European 'Odysseus Academic Network', and serves as the Vice-Chairperson of the German Expert Council on Integration and Migration. Thym has published widely on diverse issues of European law, with a special focus on immigration, citizenship, asylum, and constitutional affairs.