Marcel Lubbers is professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science: Relations between groups and cultures.

With a background in political sociology, Marcel researches questions on cohesion, with a focus on the impact of immigration on nationalism, Euroscepticism and voting behaviour. From an immigrant perspective, Marcel studies how immigrants find their way in the new society in relation to the reception climate of the receiving society.

Marcel Lubbers leads the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) 

He is board member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS).

Marcel is associate editor of European Sociological Review (ESR)