Trained in the humanities and social sciences, Mohamed Amyn is a specialist in the North Africa/Middle East region, where he has lived during his various professional and academic experiences (United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Jordan). He was also president of Sciences Po Monde Arabe, the school's association dedicated to introducing students to the region's issues.

A keen student of religious history and sociology, his research has focused on the contemporary mutations of Sufism in the fight against "political Islam", using the Moroccan context as a case study in a master's thesis entitled "Bringing the Sufis Back In. The revival of Sufism in Morocco: a political anatomy of a religious legitimisation".

Since March 2023 he has been a doctoral student at the CNRS attached to the CERI, where he works on electoral processes in the same geographical context as part of the ANR Verelect. His current research focuses on the development of an electoral culture in the Kingdom since the 1997 elections.