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 (VrlLab), we collected and processed large-scale open-source diplomatic texts to analyze and track shifts in bilateral diplomatic networks over time.

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. I used Somalia/Somaliland, Sudan, and Egypt as case studies to demonstrate the spillovers of power struggles on donor behavior.

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.