• 2022-2025 Master’s Program „Methods of Social Research“, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
   
• 2017-2022 Bachelor’s Program Social Sciences, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 

• Since 12/2025 Research Fellow at the Chair of Sociology - Transnationalization, Migration, and Work, Chair holder Prof. Dr. Margit Fauser, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
   
• 02/2024-05/2024 Internship at Research Department Migration and International Labour Studies (INTER) at Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency, Head of department Prof. Dr. Yuliya Kosyakova
   
• 2022-2025 Research Assistant at the Chair of Sociology - Transnationalization, Migration, and Work, Chair holder Prof. Dr. Margit Fauser, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
   
• 2022-2025 Research Assistant in DFG-Project „Stay, return, or move on: Comparing the life strategies of forced migrants in the transit countries of Colombia, Jordan, Mexico, and Turkey (ForMOVe II)“, Project directors Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries & Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze
   
• 2019-2022 Student Assistant at the Chair of Sociology – Organization, Migration, Participation, Chair holder Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
   
• 2019-2022 Student Assistant in DFG-Project „Forced Migration and Organized Violence – A Comparative Study in Europe and the Americas (ForMOVe I)“, Project directors Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries & Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze

Journal articles 

• Fauser, Margit & Linsel, Nick (2026) Agricultural exceptionalism, migrant farmworkers and their transnational condition: Insights into media portrayal in Germany, Journal of Rural Studies 121, 103923, doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103923
   
• Pries, Ludger & Linsel, Nick (2025) Forced migrants' agency between victimhood and self-efficacy - biographies of Syrians in Turkey. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, doi:10.1080/1369183X.2025.2586723
   
• Bücker, Daniel, Duczmal, Moritz, Linsel, Nick, Mühlbauer, Felix, Nimz, Jelena & Steinweg, Marla (2025) “Just Run Over Them” - Experiences, Perceptions and Evaluations of Violence Among Activists of Letzte Generation. Journal of HARM 4(2025), doi:10.46586/harm.2025.12111
   
• Pries, Ludger & Linsel, Nick (2021) Erfahrungen organisierter Gewalt in Lebenserzählungen syrischer Flüchtlinge zwischen Exit, Voice und Loyalty Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 22(3), doi:10.17169/fqs-22.3.3708

Contributions to edited collections 

• Pries, Ludger & Linsel, Nick (2024) Organized violence in the life histories of Afghan forced migrants in Turkey. In: Savci, B./ Pries, L./ Erdoğan, M. (eds.), Forced Migration in Turkey: Refugee Perspectives, Organizational Assistance, and Political Embedding. London: Routledge, pp.57-82.
   
• Pries, Ludger & Linsel, Nick (2024) The normalization of the exception? Dealing with organized violence in biographical narrations of forced migrants in Turkey. In: Savci, B./ Pries, L./ Erdoğan, M. (eds.), Forced Migration in Turkey: Refugee Perspectives, Organizational Assistance, and Political Embedding. London: Routledge, pp.106-145.