WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Director Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (March 2025 – Present)
Associate Professor of Psychology (February 2021 – Present)
Assistant Professor of Psychology (January 2015 – 2021)
Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey)
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology (February 2018 – Present)
Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK)
Couple and Family Therapist/Trainer/Supervisor (September 2015 – Present)
Teos Psikoloji, Part time private practice (Istanbul, Turkey)
Senior Member (August 2020 – December 2025)
Associate Member (December 2014 – July 2020)
Research Board, National Mentoring Resource Center (Chicago, IL)
Summer Visiting Scholar (August – September 2023)
Utrecht University (Netherlands)
Department of Youth & Family
Research Centre of Child and Adolescent Studies
Associate Editor (January 2020 – 2022)
Journal of Child and Family Studies
Consultant & Trainer (August 2017 - December 2018)
‘DENGE’ Project
UNICEF & Ministry of Justice, Ankara, Turkey
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar (June 2018)
ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
Global MINDS Erasmus Mundus Cultural Diversity Program, Summer School
Koç-Harvard Visiting Scholar (July – September 2017)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Consultant & Trainer (March 2016 - March 2017)
‘ÇAM’da Hayat Var’ Project (website)
Ministry of Justice, Ankara, Turkey
Post-doctoral Research Associate (January – December 2014)
University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Institute for Health Research and Policy
Graduate Research & Teaching Associate (September 2006 – August 2013)
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Department of Human Development and Family Science
Associate Professor of Psychology (February 2021 – Present)
Assistant Professor of Psychology (January 2015 – 2021)
Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey)
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology (February 2018 – Present)
Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK)
Couple and Family Therapist/Trainer/Supervisor (September 2015 – Present)
Teos Psikoloji, Part time private practice (Istanbul, Turkey)
Senior Member (August 2020 – December 2025)
Associate Member (December 2014 – July 2020)
Research Board, National Mentoring Resource Center (Chicago, IL)
Summer Visiting Scholar (August – September 2023)
Utrecht University (Netherlands)
Department of Youth & Family
Research Centre of Child and Adolescent Studies
Associate Editor (January 2020 – 2022)
Journal of Child and Family Studies
Consultant & Trainer (August 2017 - December 2018)
‘DENGE’ Project
UNICEF & Ministry of Justice, Ankara, Turkey
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar (June 2018)
ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
Global MINDS Erasmus Mundus Cultural Diversity Program, Summer School
Koç-Harvard Visiting Scholar (July – September 2017)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Consultant & Trainer (March 2016 - March 2017)
‘ÇAM’da Hayat Var’ Project (website)
Ministry of Justice, Ankara, Turkey
Post-doctoral Research Associate (January – December 2014)
University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Institute for Health Research and Policy
Graduate Research & Teaching Associate (September 2006 – August 2013)
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Department of Human Development and Family Science