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EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS

07.2022 – Present                                Senior Economist, Monetary Policy Strategy Division, European Central Bank

01.2020 – 06.2022                              Senior Economist, Monetary Policy Department, Sveriges Riksbank 

09.2014 – 01.2020                              Centre for Macroeconomics, Research Associate

01.2018 – 12.2019                               Economist, Macroeconomic Research Division, The National Institute of Economic Research

04.2016 – 12.2017                               Economist, Modelling Division, Sveriges Riksbank

09.2014 – 03.2016                              Research Associate, The University of Cambridge

09.2015 – 03.2016                               Supervisor of Studies, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 Primary Fields: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics

Secondary Field: Applied Econometrics

EDUCATION

 2009 - 2014                              Ph.D., Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

  Supervisor: Refet Gürkaynak

2007 - 2009                               M.A., Management Information Systems, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Spring 2006                               Economics, Inholland University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2002 - 2007                               B.S., Management Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

VISITING POSITIONS

 06.2014 – 08.2014                  Visiting Scholar, Sveriges Riksbank, Modeling Division, Stockholm

10.2013 – 12.2013                   Dissertation Intern, Sveriges Riksbank, Research Division, Stockholm

01.2012 - 12.2012                    Visiting Scholar, Boston University, Boston

                                                              Supervisor: Simon Gilchrist

REFEREE ACTIVITY

Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Economic Bulletin,  Economic Policy, Journal of Monetary Economics, İktisat İşletme ve Finans

TECHNICAL SKILLS and COMPETENCES

MATLAB, Mathematica, Dynare, Eviews, SPSS, Stata, MS Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word), Latex

Languages:  Turkish (Native), English (Fluent), Swedish (Intermediate) and German (Beginner)

 Header Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Greg Bacon (STScI)