Dilay Z. Karadöller, Ph.D. 

Short Biography

Dilay Z. Karadöller is an assistant professor of psychology and the primary investigator of the Multimodal Language and Cognitive Development Lab at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Dilay is also an affiliated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and affiliated faculty member at the Cognitive Science Department at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology (2013) and a master’s degree with honors in Psychological Sciences (2016) at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. Dilay then joined Multimodal Language and Cognition Group directed by Prof. dr. Aslı Özyürek at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Nijmegen as a Ph.D. student. During her Ph.D., she conducted research on the development of spatial language and memory by focusing specifically on variations in language modality and late sign language exposure. Moreover, she took part in organizing committees of several workshops and conferences and acted as a Ph.D. representative for International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences between 2016 and 2017. In addition to her role as a Ph.D. student, she worked as a part-time lecturer at several institutions, such as the Department of Language and Communication at Radboud University, the Department of Psychology at Boğaziçi University, and the Department of Psychology at Koç University. Thereafter, she continued her academic endeavor as a postdoctoral researcher in the Language and Communication lab directed by dr. Tilbe Göksun at Koç University and as a part-time faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Middle East Technical University. 

Contact

dilayk@metu.edu.tr

dilay.karadoller@mpi.nl

Twitter: @DilayKaradoller