PhD Candidate

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL

In my third year of investigating the role of talker familiarity as a window into the relationship between speech comprehension and production.

MSc Student

Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL

Completed the Language & Communication track of the Cognitive Neuroscience Master's Programme at the Donders Institute, with a minor in Neurophilosophy. My thesis investigated the possible cross-linguistic benefits of the abstraction of vowel harmony rules in lexical learning.

BA Student

Koç University, İstanbul, TR

Majored in Psychology and followed the Cognitive and Brain Sciences track. Spent two years working in three labs. Completed two independent studies and an honors project. Graduated magna cum laude.

Amateur Musician

Asked for an instrument and got it the following weekend. It all really went suspiciously smoothly. Things were good for a band in 2018, but the bass player decided to be a nerd and moved abroad to pursue an academic career. Shame.

Amateur Programmer

Found a book called 'PHP, MySQL and Apache' (which came with a CD) and read through it. Wrote my first webpage using the online editor of a free hosting service.

Human, Person, etc.

Bakırköy, İstanbul, TR

Made a dramatic entrance in protest of not having been given a consent form. Still haven't been given one.