Ruth Schmedes

Since February 2026

Research Assistant at the Ben Gurion Chair for Israel and Middle East Studies in the project "Shared Citizenship in Deeply Divided Societies: Comparing Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus", funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

Since October 2025
Research Assistant at the Ben Gurion Chair for Israel and Middle East Studies

Since October 2024
M.A. studies in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Heidelberg and the Heidelberg School of Jewish Studies (specialization: "Jewish Middle East")

October 2023 - January 2024
Internship at the Collaborative Research Center 1385 "Law and Literature" at the University of Münster

August 2021 - June 2022
Study abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Rothberg International School

2018 - 2024
B.A. degree in Islamic Studies/Arabic Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Münster

Thesis: "In-vitro fertilization and pre-implantation diagnostics from the perspective of Orthodox, Conservative and Liberal Judaism" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Regina Grundmann