About.

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in maritime law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. My current research is on the legal governance of CO₂ transport and sub-seabed storage. Earlier and continuing lines of work include the legal status of social robots (the subject of my doctoral thesis), autonomous shipping and AI liability, and comparative private law, in particular culpa in contrahendo across the civil-law and common-law systems.

Recent and forthcoming work centres on maritime decarbonization and the regulatory framework for geological CO₂ storage: two book chapters with Palgrave Macmillan are forthcoming in 2026, as is a co-authored submission with Olena Bokareva and Gabriela Argüello to the Geological Survey of Sweden (2026) on regulatory simplifications for geological CO₂ storage. Earlier published work includes a monograph on culpa in contrahendo (Yetkin Yayınları, 2024); regulatory reports for the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) on AI use in the energy sector (2025); and book chapters with Palgrave Macmillan (2023) and Springer (2021) on autonomous vessels and AI liability in the maritime domain. The full bibliography is on the publications page.

Before joining Lund, I taught at the Department of Law (subsequently renamed the School of Law and Criminology), Maynooth University, Ireland from 2017 to 2024, first as Graduate Teaching Assistant during my doctoral years, subsequently as Part-Time Lecturer and then Assistant Lecturer, convening modules on Information Technology Law and Media Law and tutoring across the undergraduate law core. I have also taught at Başkent University, Ankara, across the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Commercial Sciences, and the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (2025).

I hold a Ph.D. in Law from Maynooth University, Ireland (2023; Department of Law doctoral scholarship), supervised by Brian Flanagan; the thesis, The Almost People, addressed legal personhood for social robots. The LL.M. in International and Comparative Law is from Trinity College Dublin (2017, First Class Honours with Distinction), supervised by Nazli Heimann, with the LL.M. dissertation on culpa in contrahendo. The B.A. in Law is from Bilkent University, Ankara (2016, High Honour, Comprehensive Scholarship), with an Erasmus exchange semester at the School of Law, University of Dundee in 2013.

My method is doctrinal and comparative, with civil-law training developed across common-law and EU/international contexts.