Prof. Dr. Katrin Möltgen-Sicking has taught political science, sociology and intercultural competence at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration NRW since 2001. Since 2005, she has been a lecturer in project management at the University of Kassel. Her research interests are in the field of non-constituted forms of political participation at the municipal level, municipal integration policy and intercultural opening of the administration.

In 2012, she spent a three-month research stay at the Federal University of Porto Alegre (Brazil) to study forms of political participation at the municipal level in Brazil.