Bio

I am a PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in the Lifespan Psychology Department under the supervision of Prof. Ulman Lindenberger, Dr. Douglas Garrett and Dr. Martin Dahl. I am funded by the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH, a doctoral program in collaboration with the Max Plank UCL Center for Computational Psychiatry and Aging. During my doctoral work, I investigate the structural and functional brain bases of cognitive changes in old age. During this time, I visited the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden as a guest doctoral student in the group of Prof. Alireza Salami, where I worked further on looking at structure-function-behaviour relations in aging. I completed my MSc in cognitive neuroscience at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, completing my master thesis on age differences in metacognition under the supervision of Prof. Yana Fandakova and Prof. Ulman Lindenberger.

Affiliations

2022-present – Doctoral Candidate – Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group (LNDG) & Lifespan Neuromodulation of Cognition (LINE), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

2022-2025 – Research Fellow – International Max Planck Research School on Computational Psychiatry and Aging, Max Planck UCL Centre, Berlin, Germany and London, UK

2021-2022 – Student Research Assistant – Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

2020-2021 – Student Research Assistant – Mind-Body-Emotion Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitibve and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

2019-2022 – MSc Mind and Brain - Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2015-2019 - BSc Psychology (with minor in Philosophy of Mind) - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey