2016-2019 Research Associate at the Chair of Middle East Politics and Society at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
012015-03/2015 Junior Visiting Fellow at Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Austria
11/2012-12/2012 Guest fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies in Amman, Jordan
2009-2014 PhD and adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen
2003-2008 M.A in Political Science and Philosophy at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen
1997-2002 B.A. in Philosophy, Bosporus University, Istanbul, Turkey