She received her PhD degree in Sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France in 2005. She teaches courses on sociology of youth, social movements, political sociology and globalization. She is the author of The “myth of youth” in Turkey: The post-1980 youth in Turkey (İletişim Yayınları). During September 2011-February 2012, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. In January 2014, she was a visiting instructor at EHESS in Paris, France. Starting with May 2015, as a partner she will be working in a Horizon 2020 project “PARTISPACE: Spaces and Styles of Participation. Formal, non-formal and informal possibilities of young people’s participation in European cities”.