I am working as the lab manager of the
Decision Lab
at the
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate of Economics and Management at the
University of Trento and
Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL).
I got my B.A. in Economics from
Istanbul University and M.Sc. in Economics from
Istanbul Bilgi University.
I worked previously as the lab manager at
Bilgi Economics Lab of Istanbul (BELIS).
My Ph.D. dissertation, supervised by
Luciano Andreozzi and
Matteo Ploner , aims to investigate how social preferences are shaped by evolutionary processes.
As a general theme, my research is focused on the topic of cooperation, specifically on reciprocity and conditional cooperation. One particular application that I am interested in (and I find fascinating) is social production goods -such as open-source software, wikis, public guides and so on- which a large number unrelated individuals cooperate to produce those, oftentimes for public benefit.
For my research, I use methods from microeconomics, game theory, behavioral and experimental economics, agent-based modelling and social choice theory fields.
I am also interested in programming, especially related to experimental social sciences and data analysis. I have been using and teaching z-Tree for a while (
check out my cheat sheet if you'd like).
Recently we developed
zBrac,a tool to help translation and text editing of z-Tree files.
You can find
my CV here
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