I am a data scientist and a political psychologist. Psychometrics, psycholinguistics, modeling subjectivity, and comparative politics are among my research interests.

I serve as the Turkish Language Group Leader in the European Commission Joint Research Centre’s ValuesML - Unravelling Expressed Values in the Media for Informed Policy Making project. I am an affiliated postdoc fellow at Bremen International School of Social Sciences, Constructor University. Before this, I was a postdoc fellow at the Psychology & Methods department in a project funded by Business Finland and Hofstede Insights. At the University of Oldenburg, I worked as the interim academic coordinator of European Master in Migration & Intercultural Relations, also as a lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences.

Before academic life, I was a sales manager at a multi-national outdoor advertising company in Istanbul. During my undergrad studies, I worked as a music journalist.

What’s new?
15/06/2022: Blog post – What do political psychologists study?
23/04/2022: Blog post – Coauthor network analysis of political psychologists
09/01/2022: Blog post – What was the highlight of my Ph.D. work?
13/12/2021: Manuscript with Öney is published in Democratization. Replication material and pre-print are here
29/07/2021: Blog post – Psychological profiles and socio-demographics …
08/03/2021: Blog post – Visualizing vDEM democracy scores using plotly…
01/02/2021: Manuscript with Mole and Golec de Zavala is published in the European Journal of Sociology; replication material are available here; early view is here.
08/01/2021: Article with Öney is published in the Turkish Studies journal; accepted version of the manuscript, supplementary info, and replication syntax are available here; early view is available here.
02/07/2020: Article with Ponizovskiy, Grigoryan, Boyd, Dobewall & Holtz is published in the European Journal of Personality; supplementary information, and replication material are here. Open access view is here.
25/06/2020: Manuscript with Thomeczek is accepted to Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology’s special issue: Unpacking the social psychology of populism. Accepted manuscript, supplementary information, and replication material are here. Early view will be available here in fall 2020.
29/04/2020: Press-release of OCPD – English version is here; German version is here
26/04/2020: Blog post – An informal benchmarking within psychometrics: attitude network approach vs. the general SEM framework using German national identity as an example
12/02/2020: At the end of 2019, together with Henrik Dobewall, Peter Holtz, Klaus Boehnke & Michael Schachner, we received funding from Business Finland on behalf of Hofstede Insights to develop an instrument that measures organizational culture with text data.
02/12/2019: Blog post on the ultra-short version of Collective Narcissism Scale for the Prejudice Lab at Goldsmiths, University of London. Pdf version here; HTML version here.
15/10/2019: Article published with Castanho Silva, Thomeczek, Bandlow-Raffalski, Littvay. Online first version here, replication material here and here.
09/06/2019: Blog post – Juxtaposing psychometrics, topic modeling, and social network analysis to model competing nationalist discourses
16/04/2019: Blog post – semtree vs. networktree
02/04/2019: Website moved to GitHub