• 2026| Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics - Northern Arizona University (US)
   Summa cum laude

Disseration chair: Dr. Jesse Egbert
Dissertation title: Evaluating the Humanlikeness of AI-generated Texts through Register Alignment and Functional Appropriateness

• 2021 | M.A in English Language Teaching - Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
  Summa cum laude
  Thesis chair: Dr.  Çiler Hatipoğlu
  Thesis title: An Analysis of the Speech Act of Complaint in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) : A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of a Corpus from Tripadvisor

• 2016 | B.A. in English Language Teaching - Boğaziçi University (Turkey)
  Cum laude

• 2015 | Exchange student - University of Padova (Italy)