Biography

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I am an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye. I am also a research associate at the Democracy Institute, Central European University (Hungary), the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) at Waseda University (Japan).

I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Missouri in 2021. Before taking up my position in Istanbul, I was an assistant professor at WIAS, a postdoctoral fellow at the V-Dem Institute and the Democracy Institute, and a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University.

My research focuses on political behavior—particularly popular protests and public opinion—and regime transformation, including both democratization and autocratization, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including Policy Studies Journal, Electoral Studies, Political Research Quarterly , Democratization, and with Oxford University Press.