Sergey Rumyantsev studied sociology at Baku State University. From 2003 to 2014, he was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology, and Law at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. From 2010 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation (Washington/Tbilisi). From 2014 to 2015, he was a guest professor at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (Braunschweig). His academic interests focus on conflicts, nationalism, historical and memory politics, urban anthropology, migration, and diasporas. He is the author of more than 50 academic publications. As a journalist and editor, he collaborates with various media platforms and analytical publishers. Since 2015, he has been a permanent editor of caucasusedition.net. Since 2015, he has also been a board member of CISR e.V. Berlin and the head of the “Mass Media and Conflict Transformation” project.