PhD in Demography, Australian National University. Currently Director, Migration Research Program (MiReKoc), Koc University. Recent research projects are EUMAGINE - Imagining Europe from the outside; 500 Families: Migration Histories of Turks in Europe; "Civil Society in Turkey, 2nd STE" with Third Sector Foundation of Turkey; and "Irregular Border-crossings: Mexico-USA and Turkey-Greece Borders" with German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Teaches international migration, nationalism and ethnicity, international organizations and NGOs, Koc University.