Koç University Research Center For Translational Medicine, Koç University Hospital, Istanbul                                                    June 2018-present

Researcher

• Conduct research with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

 

Timing & Decision-Making Laboratory, Koç University, Istanbul                                                                                                            Sept 2017 – June 2018

Research Assistant

• Work on possible probiotic interventions for and cognitive models of autism spectrum disorder with Professor Fuat Balcı.

Child & Family Studies Laboratory, Koç University, Istanbul                                                                                                                   Sept 2014 – June 2018

Research Assistant

• Work on national and international research projects on theory of mind with Professor Bilge Selçuk.

Theses and Research, Princeton University, NJ                                                                                                                                             Sept 2010- April 2012

• Designed and conducted my own experiment and wrote an empirical thesis titled:

Prospective Memory and Personality: Are Different Personality Traits Associated with Greater Likelihood of Using Episodic vs. Working Memory for Prospective Remembering?

• Wrote four literature based theses on the following topics:

• Neuroscience: Sleep and Learning: Neocortical and Hippocampal Memory Systems and Sleep-Dependent REM and SWS Consolidations

• Neuroscience: Prospective Memory: The Neuroscience of Associational, Attentional, and Retrospective Processes that Help People Remember to Remember

• Clinical Neuroscience: Role of Cortisol, Amygdala and Top-Down Regulation in the Dreams of Depressed Patients

• Social Psychology: How Bodily Expression Affects Perception: Embodied Cognition and the Role of the Insula in Physical, Moral, and Emphatic Disgust & Distrust

  

Princeton Memory Research Laboratory, Princeton University, NJ                                                                                                            Jan 2011- May 2011

Research Assistant

• Organized participation of subjects in prospective memory studies conducted in Professor Kenneth Norman’s laboratory, which investigated the neural bases of prospective memory errors.

 

Psychiatrist Dr. Tarık Yılmaz’s Office                                                                                                                                                 Summer 2010, 2012, 2013

Intern & Research Assistant

• Performed research and statistical analyses of the psychological dimensions of current events, such as:

• The content of the most retweeted tweets about the Gezi Park resistance in Turkey to shed light on the psychology of the young resisting population, and

• The way suicides are reported in Turkish newspapers to draw news reporters’ attention to the psychology of the readers of such news.