Noel Clycq is a postdoctoral researcher and academic research coordinator of the RESL.eu Project at CeMIS. Until the end of 2012 Dr. Clycq was the coordinator of a large-scale Strategic Basic Research on the educational trajectories of youth with and without an immigrant background in secondary education in Flanders and he coordinated the Policy Research Centre on Integration. He also has conducted and coordinated small-scale research on topics such as socialization processes, identity construction, educational trajectories and partner-choice processes of majority and minority youth, and the local experiences of Muslims.