Bio
I am the Junior Research Fellow in Politics at The Queen's College, University of Oxford. Previously, I worked at Maastricht University and Lund University. I hold a PhD from the University of Oxford, an MA from Yale University, and a BSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Read more about my background below.
Personal details
First name: Farsan
English pronunciation: "Farzaan"
Persian spelling: فرزان
Last name: Ghassim
English pronunciation: "Gaseem"
Persian spelling: قصیم
Languages:
German (native)
English (fluent)
Persian (native)
French (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Academic career
2022 – 2025:
Position: Junior Research Fellow in Politics
Institution: The Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK
Project: How the world wants to be governed
Principal Investigator: Farsan Ghassim
2022:
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Maastricht University, Netherlands
Project: Decline and Death of International Organizations (NestIOr)
Principal Investigator: Hylke Dijkstra
2020 – 2021:
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Lund University, Sweden
Project: Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov)
Principal Investigator: Jonas Tallberg
Education
2016 – 2021:
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil/PhD)
Subject: International Relations
Institution: University of Oxford, UK
Result: No corrections
2013 – 2015:
Degree: Master of Arts (MA)
Subject: Global Affairs
Institution: Yale University, USA
Result: Honors
Award: Academic Excellence in Global Affairs (for the top graduate of the program)
2008 – 2011:
Degree: Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Subject: Management
Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
Result: First Class Honours (best possible grade at the undergraduate level in the UK)
1998 – 2007:
Degree: Allgemeine Hochschulreife (Abitur)
Institution: Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium, Germany
Result: 1.1 (top student of the class)
Awards:
Best student in the Social Sciences
Best student in French
Extracurricular achievements as high school president / student speaker
Extracurricular achievements as founder of the school magazine