I received a B.A. in Psychology (2004) and an M.A. in Developmental Psychology (2006) from Bogazici University in Turkey. I got my Ph.D. (2017) from Northwestern University, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN). Following my Ph.D., I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University Neurology Department until I was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Department of Neurosciences. My research focuses on understanding how neural circuits and gene networks react to stressful experiences that produce lasting changes in the brain, how such changes can predict adaptive and maladaptive behaviors, and thereafter modulate these changes to prevent and reverse neuropsychiatric disease-like states.

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