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I am an associate professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Hacettepe University. My research investigates language, memory and embodied cognition from data science and psycholinguistic perspectives. I publish in national and international journals, and I am currently supervising graduate research projects in psycholinguistics, cognitive translation and interpreting studies. I am experienced in designing behavioural and eye-tracking experiments, programming in Python, conducting statistical analyses using (R, and creating data visualisations with (ggplot2).

I act as a referee for several international journals, including Cognition, Psychological Research, Memory, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, as well as for grants from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK). I am co-editor of the John Benjamins publication Translation, Cognition & Behavior. Previously, I was an associate editor of the Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters. I am the proud recipient of the 2019 Hacettepe University Science Incentive Award in the Social Sciences.

I am a supporter of open, transparent and reproducible science. In my spare time, I enjoy writing, coding and analysing data while listening to my custom playlists. I believe that the future lies in interdisciplinary research. Watch the video below to learn more about my academic journey (courtesy of the Digital Story Hub at the Faculty of Communication at Hacettepe University).


Education

  • PhD in Psychology, 2019
    University of Birmingham
    Thesis title: Looking for language in space: Spatial simulations in memory for language (.Birmingham etheses) (Responsive web)
    Supervisor: Dr Robin L Thompson
    Viva examiners: Dr Steven Frisson (University of Birmingham), Dr Daniel Richardson (University College London)

  • MSc in Psychology, 2014 (distinction)
    University of Birmingham
    Thesis title: Effect of speech rate and overlapping on multimodal language processing: Evidence from eye movements (.pdf)

  • MA in Translation & Interpreting, 2011
    Hacettepe University
    Thesis title: Visual focal loci in simultaneous interpreting (.pdf)

  • BA in Translation & Interpreting, 2008
    Hacettepe University

Interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Memory for language
  • Grounded-embodied cognition
  • Cognitive translation & interpreting studies

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