Orhun (me)
He's from around 41°02'20.0"N 28°59'13.1"E
(favorite burger place: Biber Burger in Beşiktaş)
and lives around 51°50'52.6"N 5°52'13.0"E
(favorite burger place: Freddy's on Koningsplein)
As of 17 Oct 2025, he also responds to
[ɾ̞̊]
His favorite phoneme is a voiceless alveolar tapped fricative: It commonly occurs word-finally in Turkish, Flemish and Romanian, as well as in various places in Icelandic.
Please contact me if you encounter this highly sought-after sound in another language.
He never planned to write this page in third person but he's now stuck because he just wanted to see how far he could go with it.
Please keep scrolling to view some adjectives that modify me if the above was somehow not everything you wanted to know. You can always mail me if you want more information (e.g., if you want to see my CV).
Postdoctoral Researcher
Donders Centre for Cognition, Nijmegen, NL
Building a Bayesian, talker-specific computational model of (human) spoken word recognition.
2025 - presentPhD Candidate
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL
My PhD work investigated the role of talker-specific information as a window into the relationship between listening and speaking. I defended my thesis on 17 Oct 2025.
2020 - 2025MSc 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.
2018 - 2020BA 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.
2014 - 2018Amateur 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.
2011 - presentAmateur 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. The results were underwhelming.
2008 - presentHuman, Person, etc.
İstanbul, TR
Made a dramatic entrance in protest of not having been given a consent form. Still haven't been given one.
1996 - present