Assoc. Prof. Halim Baş
Assoc. Prof. Halim Baş completed his undergraduate education in Business Administration at Kocaeli University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 2012. In 2016, he earned a master’s degree in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations from Istanbul University and completed his PhD in 2020. From 2015 to 2022, he lectured at Istanbul Medipol University Vocational School of Social Sciences. He currently serves in the Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations at Marmara University. His research focuses include social policy, youth, international students, skilled labor, and brain drain. He is proficient in English.
Dr. A. Sena Sezgin
Dr. A. Sena Sezgin is a faculty member and deputy chair in the Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Marmara University. She earned her bachelor’s degree with honors from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2008, completed her master’s under Prof. Dr. Öget Öktem-Tanör, and earned her PhD under Prof. Dr. Sevim Cesur at Istanbul University. In 2015, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. Her primary research areas include giftedness perception and policies, labeling, narcissism culture, school psychology, willpower, and executive functions.
Assoc. Prof. Fatma Özge Ünsal
Assoc. Prof. Fatma Özge Ünsal graduated in 2006 from Marmara University’s Preschool Teaching and Child Development Department and earned her doctorate on preschool children’s social skills and resilience. Her research covers preschool education, children’s literature, and emotional regulation.
Prof. Asil Özdoğru
Prof. Asil Özdoğru is a faculty member in the Psychology Department and Deputy Director of the Institute of Population and Social Research at Marmara University. His research interests include child development, adult education, applied psychology, and team science.
Dr. Muzaffer Şenel
Dr. Muzaffer Şenel is a visiting researcher at the Institute of Population and Social Research, Marmara University. He specializes in world order, security studies, European foreign policy, and the Eastern Mediterranean. He has conducted research at Oxford, Jagiellonian, and SUNY Binghamton, and authored books on global orders and modernity.
Prof. Olga Tofaniuk
Prof. Olga Tofaniuk graduated in 2002 from the National Aerospace University “KhAI” (Ukraine), Faculty of Economics and Management, with a Master’s degree in Finance. In 2011, she completed her PhD in Economics titled “Overcoming Problem Regions’ Depression by Reducing Regional Development Disproportions.” She works as a lecturer at KhAI, Faculty of Software Engineering and Business, Chair of Management and Business Administration. She has authored over 70 scientific publications including 6 monographs and 54 articles.
She conducted research at the Public Finance Chair, University of Würzburg (Germany) in 2015 on “The Fiscal Equalization System in Germany and Ukraine,” and from 2022–2025 on “Demographic Change and the Ukrainian Pension System – A Quantitative Analysis” and “The Ukrainian Economic Reconstruction after the War – A Simulation Analysis.” She presented her results at the Workshop of the Population and Social Policies Research Center, Marmara University, on “A Simulation Study of Aging and Pensions in Ukraine” (November 13, 2024).
Main interests: European integration; demographic transition economics; tax and pension reform simulation models.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8832-1381
Merve Taşcıoğulları
Merve Taşcıoğulları graduated with high honors from Istanbul University’s Sociology Department and completed a Family Counseling program. She is currently a master’s student in Sociology at Marmara University. Her research interests include social policy, family sociology, digital transformation, and AI.
Müberra Aksu
Müberra Aksu graduated with honors from Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University (Sociology Department) and completed a minor in Psychology. She is currently a master’s student in Sociology at Marmara University. Her research interests include family, demography, social policy, life satisfaction, and media sociology. She speaks Spanish (advanced) and Russian (intermediate).
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