I’m a political geographer driven by curiosity about how power, place, and identity shape our world. My research, writing, and teaching engage with questions around state power, migration, inequality, and violence, drawing on feminist geography, critical geopolitics, migration studies, and Kurdish studies.

My current research explores state violence through a feminist and embodied perspective. Combining ethnographic fieldwork with theoretical and methodological reflection, I examine how violence is enacted, experienced, interpreted, and negotiated within everyday institutional life. Much of this work is based on long-term research in Turkish Kurdistan, where I explore the perspectives and practices of both state actors and the communities they govern. More broadly, I am interested in developing new ways of studying the state by bringing questions of embodiment, emotion, ethics, and everyday practice into conversations about power and violence.

Alongside my research, I teach courses across political and human geography, with topics ranging from political geography and feminist geographies to migration, state violence, and qualitative research methods. I am also involved in a number of academic communities and professional organizations. I currently co-chair the Feminist Geographies Group of the Swiss Association of Geographers (ASG) and serve on the board of the AAG Political Geography Specialty Group. I am also an active member of the Swiss Association for Turkish Studies (SFST) and the Swiss Society for the Middle East and Islamic Cultures (SGMOIK).

Outside academia, I enjoy collecting everyday objects and turning them into keepsakes, experimenting with artistic crafting, and reading art history as an enthusiastic amateur. I'm also a longtime fan of science fiction and fantasy, and I appreciate comedy not only as entertainment but also as a way of understanding the world. Cooking Mediterranean vegan dishes (well... with varying results!), walking in the rain, and getting pleasantly lost in unfamiliar cities are some of my favorite ways to slow down.