Valentin Feneberg studied Political Sciences, Sociology and Philosophy in Munich, Berlin and Oxford. From 2018 to 2019 he was research assistant at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in Berlin. Since May 2019 he is research assistant and coordinator at the Integrative Research Institute Law & Society (LSI) at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He works in the field of socio-legal studies, with a focus on asylum adjudication and administrative courts, the investigation and application of Country of Origin Information (COI), poverty as a reason for humanitarian protection, refugee status determination in cases of draft evasion/conscientious objection, as well as on assisted return policies, particularly on the case of Senegal. He is a member of the International Doctoral Programme of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS).