Staff
Dr Fatma Yılmaz-Elmas
Professional Career
Dr Fatma Yılmaz-Elmas is currently working as a research fellow for the Horizon Europe Project GAPs, co-led by bicc. She has over 15 years of experience in working at think tanks, NGOs and project research/consulting. She worked as a post-doctoral research fellow for Ozyegin University (2023) and Istanbul Bilgi University in different projects (2020–2023). She has also lectured at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, İstanbul Bilgi University (2020–2023). For over ten years, she engaged in research in European Studies at the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK), a Turkish independent think-tank. She also took on editorial roles for different publications, was editor-in-chief of a monthly policy magazine (2013–2016) and editorial coordinator of an online news portal on diaspora (2017–2018). She obtained her PhD in International Relations/European Studies from Ankara University (2016) with a dissertation on the EU migration–foreign policy nexus, for which she conducted research at the Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence (University of Pittsburgh) in 2012. She received her BA in International Relations from Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir (2006), and her MA in European Studies from Ankara University (2008).