An associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University. She is an ecological economist working on fisheries, food sovereignty, biodiversity and political ecology of nature conservation. She worked as a research fellow for UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) and EU-funded projects EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade) and ENTITLE (European Network of Political Ecology). She was a Mercator-IPC Fellow and post-doc researcher at the  Istanbul  Policy Center, Sabanci University.