Dr. Sakin Özışık

Social Sciences University of Ankara

Dr. Sakin Özışık received his undergraduate degree from Cumhuriyet University’s Faculty of Theology in 2003. Between 2003 and 2005, he studied Arabic in Tunisia and Syria under a Foreign Relations Scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of National Education. He completed his master’s degree in History of Religions at Cumhuriyet University’s Institute of Social Sciences in 2007. Between 2006 and 2008, he was an Erasmus student in the Department of Protestant Theology at Bielefeld University in Germany. He completed his doctoral studies at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology between 2009 and 2015, using qualitative research methods to examine the religiosity and intergenerational faith development of Muslim immigrants of Turkish origin living in Germany.

He worked as an Arabic language instructor at Bielefeld University’s Language Center between 2012 and 2020 and taught courses on Muslims in Germany and migration pedagogy at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt in 2014 and 2015. Between 2017 and 2020, he worked as a research assistant on the Refugee Health Project conducted by Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and Department of Theology. He has participated in various training and certificate programs in Germany focused on providing social, psychological and health support to immigrants and refugees.

Since 2020, he has been a faculty member in Psychology of Religion within the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Theology of the Social Sciences University of Ankara. In 2026, he was appointed to the Executive Board of the University’s Application and Research Center for Competition and Regulation.