About Me

I am working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University. I am also the PI of TÜBİTAK-funded Global Diplomatic Network project, which combines innovative methodological tools with puzzles in International Relations. At Sabancı University’s Computational Social Science Lab, we collected and processed large-scale open-source diplomatic texts to analyze and track shifts in bilateral diplomatic networks over time. My methodological research track includes curating and deploying large datasets to study states’ political and economic behavior.

In the substantive domain, I focus on the complexities of global development cooperation. My doctoral dissertation explained how non-traditional donors respond to OECD-DAC members’ political and economic foreign aid conditionalities. I analyzed and contrasted China, Turkey and the UAE’s foreign aid practices with those of OECD donors. I mainly employ quantitative tools to model donor competition with particular emphasis on the ACPs, Sahel, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. My current and domain-specific research includes geoeconomics and geopolitics of global development cooperation.

I taught IPE at Sabanci University and worked as a teaching assistant for the Law and Ethics course. In addition to my academic career, I have worked as a researcher and consultant for a number of global and local think tanks. I received my B.A and M.A. degree from the Philosophy Department at Boğaziçi University, particularly focusing on social and political philosophy. I also hold an LL.B.degree from Kadir Has University.