Employment:

• 2022 - present: The Claremont Colleges - Pitzer College, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

• 2023 - present: The Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Extended Faculty and Avery Fellow

• 2021 - 2022: The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Mathematics, Member

  • IAS Host: Helmut Hofer

• 2020 - 2022: ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics, Researcher and Lecturer

  • ETH Hosts: Ana Cannas and Paul Biran

• 2017 - 2020: Northwestern University, Boas Assistant Professor of Mathematics

  • NU Mentor: Emmy Murphy (of Princeton)

• Fall 2019: Oberwolfach Institute for Mathematics, Leibniz Fellow

• 2016 - 2017 (en route to PhD): Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, Lecturer

Education:

• 2011 - 2017: Ph.D. in Mathematics

  • Advisor: Ko Honda (UCLA), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

• • 2015 - 2017: Graduate PhD Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

• 2008 - 2011: M.Sc. in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

• 2004 - 2008: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Supervision and Mentoring:

• Metehan Aksay, Semester Research Project, ETH Zürich, Spring 2023

  • Title: A Topological Analysis of Contact Manifolds and Their Symplectic Fillings

• Joël Beimler, M.Sc. Thesis, ETH Zürich, Summer 2021

  • Title: Strong Symplectic Fillings of Contact Manifolds through Lefschetz-Bott Fibrations: Revisited

• Marisa Bühler, Semester Research Project, ETH Zürich, Spring 2021

  • Title: Symplectic Toric Manifolds and Delzant’s Theorem

• Lukas Bertsch, Semester Research Project, ETH Zürich, Spring 2021

  • Title: Chern Classes: A Topological and Geometric Approach

• Elizabeth Cameron, Undergraduate Summer Research, Northwestern University, Summer 2019

  • Title: Topological Invariants of Surfaces

• Jasmine Hunt (Math Alliance Mentee), Kansas State University, Current PhD placement: Ohio State, 2020 - 2021

• Alicia Becerra Romero (Math Alliance Mentee), UC Riverside, Current PhD placement: UC Irvine, 2019 - 2020

Selected Honors and Grants:

• National Science Foundation Grant, 2025-2027

• 2024 BLAIS Challenge Award

• Avery Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University

• Project NeXT Fellowship, Mathematical Association of America

• Summer Collaborators Fellowship, IAS, Princeton

• Leibniz Fellowship, Oberwolfach Institute for Mathematics, Germany

• Edward and Dolores Blum Research Prize, USC

• Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Category of Mathematics, USC

• Theodore E. Harris Teaching Prize in Mathematics, USC

• NSF - AWM Travel Grant

• AWM - Advance Grant for Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology

• Women in Science and Engineering Travel Grant, USC