Before completing his MPhil and DPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford, he obtained a BA in Economics from Boğaziçi University and an MSc in Finance and Economics from LSE. During his doctoral studies, he was a student member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. His research interests lie in the area of econometric theory and panel data econometrics with a focus on financial applications. In 2013 he has received a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant for a duration of four years, for the project “Econometric Modelling of Short Panels with Applications in Financial Econometrics.” Since January 2014, he is on Academic Scientific Board of the academic journal “İktisat, İşletme ve Finans.”