I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

I obtained my PhD (summa cum laude) from the Geneva Graduate Institute in November 2019 with a thesis entitled “Bargaining Over Maritime Boundaries in Times of Legal Uncertainty”. Prior to this, I held a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Political Science at Stanford University with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and visiting research fellowships at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, the Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance at the University of Copenhagen(iCourts), the Faculty of Law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University.

My research interests lie at the intersection of international security, international law, and domestic politics. Using original data and mixed-methods, I examine how characteristics of international law and domestic political institutions shape the claims that states make and the ways in which they manage their disputes. I work on these queries in various domains, ranging from sovereignty to trade and human rights.