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 also an Affiliated Faculty at the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM).

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).

She pursues several interconnected research agendas. She studies public goods provision and charitable giving by examining the role of competition, authority, taxation, information, and culture on voluntary giving decisions. She examines strategies to mitigate resource and environmental challenges through the analysis of institutional mechanisms and market-based instruments, including output-sharing partnerships and carbon offset markets. She analyses the stability of individual preferences by exploiting a natural experimental setup that enables her to identify individual level random exposure to armed conflict. More recently, she investigates how AI adoption influences productivity, income and inequality.