Amin El-Yousfi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and a research scholar at the Woolf Institute. He was awarded the Cambridge Trust scholarship to commence his PhD in 2015/2016. His PhD thesis focuses on local Muslim leadership in France and UK. He is a member of the European Sociological Association (ESA), the British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS), and the Cambridge Muslims in Europe Postgraduate Forum (CMEPF).