Seren Selvin Korkmaz Doktorand

  Seren Selvin Korkmaz is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. She is a researcher in Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS). She obtained her BA and MA degrees from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. She spent the 2017-2018 academic year as a Fox International Fellow in the Middle Eastern Council of Macmillian International and Area Studies at Yale University where she has completed a non-degree graduate program.

Seren is the co-founder and executive director of İstanbul Political Research Institute (IstanPol), an independent policy-oriented research institute with a particular focus on Turkey & Euro-Mediterranean zone. Also, she works as researcher at the Human Development Research Center at Boğaziçi University. She has contributed to the studies and administration of various NGOs and research centers and has also participated in various congresses, workshops and seminars as a speaker and an organizer. She co-founded Political and Social Research Institute of Europe (PS:EUROPE), an Austria- and Turkey-based research institute and served as Director of Turkey Office of the institute from 2015 to 2017.

Seren has contributed to various media platforms with her comments and opinion pieces about international and Turkish politics. Her frequent comments in Medyascope.tv can be accessed via https://medyascope.tv/etiket/seren-selvin-korkmaz/