Neslihan Uler is an associate professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AREC) at the University of Maryland, and Director of the Symons Hall Experimental Laboratory (SHEL). She is an experimental economist and works mainly in the fields of Public Economics, Environmental Economics and Behavioral Economics. She was awarded AGNR's 2022 On-Campus Junior Faculty Award. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO).

Her main research agenda focuses on understanding public goods provision and charitable giving by examining the role of competition, authority, taxation, information, and culture on voluntary giving decisions. Another research agenda investigates the effects of different mechanisms such as output-sharing partnerships and carbon offset markets on individual behavior in the presence of negative externalities, and tests whether economic inefficiencies could be eliminated or at least mitigated through such policies. More recently, she studies the stability of individual preferences by exploiting a natural experimental setup that enables her to identify individual level random exposure to armed conflict at various degrees and types.