Gökce Yurdakul is Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Director of Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research (BIM, 2023-2025). She is also a member at the transdisciplinary gender studies program. Yurdakul was the Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at her university (2019-21).

Yurdakul received her PhD at the University of Toronto, Department of Sociology in 2006. Her areas of interest are gender, immigration, citizenship, specifically issues of Muslim women in Western Europe. Her research was funded by national and international grants. She was a Weatherhead Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at the Harvard University in 2019, where she was affiliated with the Comparative Inequalities and Inclusion Research Cluster. 

Yurdakul has published numerous journal articles, two monographs and three edited collections on the issues of Muslim immigration to Europe and North America. Her publications include From Guest Workers into Muslims: The Transformation of Turkish Immigrant Associations in Germany (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009); The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging (Stanford University Press, 2014, equal co-authors with Anna C. Korteweg).  Her article on the border experiences of  Muslim trans*women migrants from Bulgaria received the best article award in the Council for European Studies' Gender and Sexuality Network in 2020 (co-authored with Altay and Korteweg). Yurdakul is a co-editor the Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches on Migration, Gender, and Sexuality (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2025). 

Yurdakul is committed to strengthening equity, especially for discriminated groups outside her academic work. She wrote policy reports and thematic papers on the issues of Muslim women in Western Europe for United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD, 2010), the Federal Ministry of Family in Germany (2017) and Media Service Integration (2018). She participated in the Berlin State Office for Equity and Anti-Discrimination, where she is an expert jury member in the field of sexist and discriminatory public advertisement (2021-2023).