Education

  • Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Germany 2025
  • M.Sc. in Economics (with Honors), Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey 2019
  • B.A. in Economics (with Honors), Bogazici University, Istanbul/Turkey 2015

Employment

  • PhD Intern, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main / Germany, 2023-2024
    • Dynamic Factor Models, Machine Learning and Micro Price Data
    • Price Analysis
  • PhD Intern, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington D.C. / USA, 2023
    • Assessing the impact of climate-related regulatory policy announcements by local administrations as well as local newspapers on valuations of Latin American country assets via AI/textual analysis
  • Researcher, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Ankara/Turkey, 2016 - 2019
    • (Short Term) Inflation Forecasting : Conducted short term macro-econometric time series modeling and forecasting in the price analysis team using various types of modeling techniques. Mainly used time-varying parameter models, Bayesian VAR Models, disaggregate models, satellite models, and carried out model performance. Furthermore regularly contributed to the quarterly inflation reports, monthly price development releases, and ad hoc policy reports.
    • International Macroeconomics : Wrote policy reports and briefs on international economic developments, portfolio flows, growth, and their prospective impacts on the local economy. Closely following the key economic indicators and macroeconomic data and the impact on the export performance

Research Interests

  • Economics of Climate Change, Macro Econometrics
  • Analysis of Textual Data

Research

Presentations

  • Climate News and Asset Valuations: Insights from Latin America. International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC/United States
  • The impact of climate change mitigation policies : Europe and beyond, University of Mainz, Mainz/Germany
  • Climate News and Asset Valuations: Insights from Latin America. International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC/United States
  • The macroeconomic impact of climate change mitigation policies, Joint Conference of Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim and Frankfurt School of Finance, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
  • The impact of climate change mitigation policies : Europe and beyond, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main/Germany

Teaching

  • Statistics and Introduction to Stata (Ph.D. Level), Goethe University Frankfurt

Software Skills

  • Python, SQL, R, Julia, C++, MATLAB(/Dynare), Stata, EViews, LATEX, Ms. Office

Language Skills

  • English (Fluent)
  • German (Advanced)
  • Turkish (Native)
  • Spanish (Basic)

Grants/Awards

  • 2019 - 23 PhD Scholarship/Fellowship by DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)