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Niels Valdemar Vinding is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Law & Religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, permanently appointed since October 2022. He earned his PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Copenhagen in 2013 as a PhD Fellow at the Centre for European Islamic Thought, with a thesis examining Muslim organisations, institutions, and state-religion relations in Britain, Germany, and Denmark. Previously, he obtained an MA in Islamic Studies from the same institution in 2009, receiving the University of Copenhagen Gold Medal for his thesis on the English state's regulation of Anglicanism and Islam. Vinding also holds an LL.M. in Canon Law with Distinction awarded in 2020. His career trajectory at the University of Copenhagen encompasses Assistant Professor in the Department for Cross-cultural and Regional Studies from 2014 to 2017, where he contributed to the ‘Imams of the West’ project involving sociological interviews with 50-60 imams across Europe, Australia, and North America; Postdoctoral Fellow from 2017 to 2020 on the ‘Danish Mosques – Significance, Use and Influence’ project focusing on mosque leadership and power relations; and Associate Professor and Sapere Aude research leader from 2021 to 2022, heading the ‘Producing Sharia in Context’ project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, which he continues until early 2025.