Tobias is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and College Research Associate at King's College, University of Cambridge. Tobias is a post-doctoral researcher at the EU funded Horizon 2020 project DRIVE at Leiden University and was principal researcher of SORGES, a project on religion, gender and the state at the Woolf Institute and the University of Cambridge. He is interested in political and social theory, postcolonial and feminist theory, secularism and religion, and the politics of the climate emergency. With a preference for ethnographic methods, he examines how different groups challenge political institutions and how contemporary states respond to these challenges. Tobias has recently co-edited a special issue in Ethnic and Racial Studies on “Reconsidering Islam and Space in Europe: Governance, Institutions, Performance” and has published an op-ed in Nature on why people of faith might be our best hope to stall climate change.

Tobias has joined THE NEW INSTITUTE in the spring of 2022, and is involved in the programme “The Future of Democracy".