Professor Dr. Nasima Selim is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in anthropology, medicine, and public health. She is a writer, researcher, educator, and breathworker. She navigates the terrains of knowledge and praxis in public anthropology, planetary health, environmental humanities, and the anthropology of Islam, spanning Western Europe and South Asia. 

Creative writing (non-fiction and fiction), reflexive and non-hierarchical pedagogy, and interdisciplinary collaborations inform her scientific and literary aspirations. 

She is currently working on a multi-country research project following breathing intelligence across species, elements, and technologies in South Asia. Her recent publications include Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany (Berghahn 2024) and a co-edited volume, Ways of Breathing and Knowing: The Politics and Poetics of Air, Atmosphere, and the Body (with Judith Albrecht, Routledge, forthcoming). 

She is currently a professor of public anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen. She is teaching, among others, a special topics colloquium titled Conspiring Collectives. Professor Selim has previously worked as a senior research associate (post-doc) at the University of Bayreuth; postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin; senior lecturer at the James P Grant School of Public Health, Brac University; senior medical officer at Monon Psychiatric Hospital, Dhaka; and assistant registrar at the Mental Hospital, Pabna, Bangladesh. She spent a research fellowship year at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India.

Professor Selim co-founded the working group AG Public Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association, DGSKA. She is a member of 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science), the working group Medical Anthropology of DGSKA, and the European Association of Social Anthropologists, EASA. She is also a lifetime member of the Public Health Association of Bangladesh.