She previously worked at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in the EU Framework Programmes Department as a Junior Scientific Officer and National Contact Point for the Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities theme. She has managed several FP6 projects as coordinator and work-package leader at TUBITAK. Her areas of interest include the nature and viability of positive peace; pre-conflict prevention and peacebuilding; conflict transformation and reconciliation and transitional/transformative justice. Her book entitled “Positive Peace in Theory and Practice: Strengthening The UN’s Pre-Conflict Prevention Role” was published by Brill Nijhoff in 2015.