San Diego - Sunset Cliffs - 2019
San Diego - Sunset Cliffs - 2019
Teaching is almost as important as doing research for me. In this informal blog post (coming soon...) I described my teaching experience and philosophy. I have the following teaching experiences:
1. Music Psychology II (2019: 4 lectures, 2025: 1 lecture)
2. Cognitive Research and Neuroscience of Music I (2019: co-designing and instructing the full course)
3. Music Perception and Cognition (2020: co-designing and instructing the full course)
4. Contemporary Issues in Musicology Research (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024: 1 lecture)
5. Music and Neuroscience (2021: Independent work, 2022: co-designing and instructing the full course)
6. Music, Mind and Wellbeing (Summer School 2023: lecture and workshop on groove and embodiment)
7. Into Music (Summer School 2025: 1 lecture)
Invited Talk: "The Music We Groove To" for Dr. Jill Morgan's MA Psychology in the Arts (Music) class at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2024 & 2025, 1 lecture)
Invited Talk: "Groove" for Prof. Vinoo Alluri's Music Perception class at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (2025, 1 lecture)
Invited Talk: "The Psychology of Music & Why We Get into the Groove" joint event for the Communication and Design, and Psychology Departments (hosted by Ufuk Önen & Asst. Prof. Burcu Ayse Urgen) at Bilkent University, Ankara (2024, 1 lecture)
Statistics-I (PSYC-203), Teaching Assistant, Asst. Prof. David Lewis, University of Bilkent (September 2014 - January 2015)
Building Bridges for Refugee Children, Volunteer Teacher and Organizer, Ankara / Turkey (May - July 2016)
I was involved in the supervision of two Master’s theses titled as “Musical Groove and Its’ Neural Correlates: An EEG Study” and “Relationship of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry with Music Induced Pleasure Measured with Low-Cost Wireless EEG System”. Additionally, I had an Erasmus+ intern during the summer of 2023.