Niels Valdemar Vinding, BA in Theology (UCph, 2006), MA in Islamic Studies (UCph, 2009), PhD in Islamic Studies (UCph, 2013).

Niels Valdemar Vinding is associate professor in islamic studies and law & religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

Niels' general research is on Islam and Muslims in Denmark and Europe, and it currently leading a research project on 'Producing Sharia in Context', funded from 2021 to 2024 by the Danish Independent Research Fund. His recent publications include: Vinding, N. V. (2020). Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Denmark. Brill. Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe Vol. 18; Vinding, N.V., Racius, E., & Thielmann, J., (eds.), Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe. Essays in Honour of Jørgen S. Nielsen, Muslim Minorities Series, Vol. 27, Leiden: Brill Publishers 2018 and Hashas, M., J. J. de Ruiter, and N. V. Vinding, (eds.) Imams in Western Europe, Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges, University of Amsterdam Press, 2018