She is also head of the Department of Economics. She did research at the Aarhus University (Denmark) in 2010 and the Sam Houston State University (Texas, USA) in 2016 via scholarships supported by the Turkish Republic. Her research areas are energy and environmental economics, tourism economics and information economics. She published in indexed journals: such as Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Energy Exploration & Exploitation