I received my Ph.D. in political science from Boston University in May 2025. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Sociology from Koç University, Turkey. At Koç University, my research focused on International Political Economy and European Studies. I received a Master of Arts in International Affairs from Northeastern University, where I focused on International Public Policy and European Union studies. At Northeastern University, I worked as a research assistant on a grant-funded project related to immigration, for which I transcribed and analyzed data collected via interviews.  

During my Ph.D. studies at Boston University, I took field exams in Comparative Politics and Quantitative Methods. I was a teaching fellow for Quantitative Methods I and Data Science for Politics classes, for which I received the Outstanding Teaching Fellow award in the 2020-2021 Academic Year. I co-instructed the European Politics class in the 2021-2022 academic year. During the Summer 2024 semester, I taught Introduction to Comparative Politics class. My dissertation analyzes the European Union’s response to the democratic challenges coming from member states such as Poland and Hungary. I was a visiting researcher at the University of Warsaw in Poland from February 2023 to July 2023, where I completed my fieldwork. My most recent work was published in Nationalities Papers.