Director

Mehmet Fatih Aysan is a Professor of Sociology at Marmara University and the director of the Center for Population and Social Policies, Institute of Population and Social Research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario (2011) and taught sociology at the same university (2010-2012). He previously worked as a faculty member in the Department of Sociology (2012-2020) and as the director of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2016-2020) at İstanbul Şehir University. His sociological interests are rooted at the intersection of demography, family, sociology of work, and social policy. His study centers on how changes in demographics, labor markets, and social policies combine to influence the welfare of societies. His research projects were supported by the TÜBA, EU, ERC, IDRC, and TÜBİTAK. Dr. Aysan’s works are published in edited books and peer-reviewed journals such as Routledge, Palgrave, Springer, Population & Development Review, The Canadian Journal of Sociology, and Emerging Markets & Finance.

https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/maysan

Assistant Director

Asil Özdoğru completed his undergraduate education in the double major program between Guidance and Psychological Counseling and Psychology at Boğaziçi University in 2003. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in educational psychology from State University of New York at Albany. Between 2003 and 2012, he worked as a research assistant, instructor, and associate in various institutions and organizations in the United States. Between 2012 and 2023, he worked as a faculty member at Üsküdar University and served as the head of Department of Psychology (English) and as vice dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He currently works as a faculty member at the Department of Psychology at Marmara University and serves as the head of Division of Developmental Psychology and the assistant director of the Institute of Population and Social Research. His academic interests include child development, adult learning, applied psychology, and team science.

https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/15236

Assistant Professor Zeynep Selen Artan 

Head Of The Department Of Demography

Selen Artan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Marmara University. She holds a PhD. in sociology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Her scholarly interests span across migration, identity, gender, media, and culture. Her research has been published in academic journals such as Political Geography and Toplum ve Bilim as well as several edited volumes.

https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/15248

Assistant Professor Mehmet Fuat Kına  

Head of Social Research Department

I am an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Marmara University, where my expertise centers on computational social sciences, causal inference, social movements, and comparative welfare analysis. I also serve as a lecturer for advanced data analysis methods in the Computational Social Sciences MA program at Koç University, where I'm actively involved with the Politus Project and the Center for Computational Social Sciences (CSS). My current research primarily focuses on measuring public opinion using digital traces, linking diverse data sources such as surveys, social media, and administrative records, and finally quantitative determinants of labor movement mobilization in Turkey. I hold a Bachelor of Economics from Boğaziçi University, a Master’s degree from İstanbul Şehir University, and a PhD from Koç University's Sociology program. For my doctoral dissertation, I explored the interplay between radical rural movements and welfare policies in Brazil and India. This investigation proposed an analytical framework to understand how the governments of Brazil and India leverage social assistance programs to demobilize radical rural movements, and how this strategy is reversed in India, while successfully containing the Brazilian rural poor. To tackle case-specific reverse causality issues, I employed quasi-experimental methodologies in both contexts.

https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/15462

Aslı Bilgin

Administrative Staff

Aslı Bilgin works as an administrative officer at Marmara University Population and Social Research Institute. She completed her undergraduate education at Anadolu University, Department of Public Relations and Advertising in 2023

Mail: asli.bilgin@marmara.edu.tr