Curriculum Vitae
Academic positions
Postdoctoral Researcher — Technical University of Munich, Germany
2023 — present
Research Associate and Lecturer — Technical University of Munich, Germany
2019 — 2023
Called for tenured Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior — Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University
2023
Visiting scholar activities
College of Business, State University of New York at Stony Brook
April — August 2025 · Host: Prof. Dr. Manuel London
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Ghent
April — June 2022 · Host: Prof. Dr. Jonas Lang
Education
Ph.D. in Motivational and Organizational Psychology — TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich
2019 — 2023
Dissertation: Implicit and Explicit Motives at Work: Incremental Validity Beyond Big Five Traits and Negative Effects of Their Incongruence. Committee: Hugo M. Kehr (supervisor), Jutta Roosen, Isabell M. Welpe.
M.Sc. in Psychology: Learning Sciences — Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
2016 — 2018
M.Ed. in Research on Teaching and Learning — Technical University of Munich
2015 — 2017
B.Sc. in Psychology — Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2010 — 2015
Honors, awards, and grants
German Research Foundation (DFG) funding application — 2026
Research project at the intersection of motivation psychology and generative artificial intelligence (approx. €350,000).
Research stay funding, University of Ghent — 2022
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (host: Prof. Dr. Jonas Lang), €3,100.
Academy of Management Best Paper Award, OB Division — 2020
“Implicit motives as the missing link between transformational leadership behaviors and follower outcomes.”
Professional service
Reviewer — Cogent Business & Management; Academy of Management Annual Meeting; Motivation and Emotion; Human Resource Management Journal
Ad hoc reviewer — Motivation Science; German Journal of Human Resource Management; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Memberships — Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs); European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
Selected collaborators
Herman Aguinis (George Washington University) · Jonas W. B. Lang (Ghent University and University of Exeter) · Avraham N. Kluger (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) · Simone Kauffeld (TU Braunschweig) · Manuel London (Stony Brook University) · Hugo M. Kehr (TUM) · Karoline Strauss (ESSEC Business School Paris) · Markus Quirin (PFH Göttingen and TUM)
Languages and software
Languages — Kurdish (native), Turkish (native), English (fluent), German (fluent)
Software — R, Python, SPSS, JASP
References
Prof. Dr. Hugo M. Kehr — TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich
kehr@tum.de
Prof. Dr. Manuel London — College of Business, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Manuel.London@stonybrook.edu
Prof. Dr. Karoline Strauss — Department of Management, ESSEC Business School
strauss@essec.edu