Arş. Gör. Dr. EMİRHAN ALTUNKAYA

Biyografi

Emirhan Altunkaya completed bachelor's degree and master's degree in department of International Relations at Galatasaray University. During these years he spent one academic year at Sciences Po Lyon and a semestre at Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne as an exchange student and had chance to discover international research opportunities. In 2015 he joined to Galatasaray University department of international relations as a research assistant. 

Between 2017 and 2023 he is pursued and successfuly completed his PhD degree at Middle East Technical University, Ankara. During this period, he spent the academic year of 2019 – 2020 in New York University (NYU) for his doctorate research, as a Fulbright Scholar. He had chance to develop connections and pursue research at NYU, which laid the background of his PhD Thesis. His PhD research focuses on the Arctic Politics dvelving into questions of international security in the Arctic Region in the Climate Change Era.

Altunkaya's main research areas are: international environmental politics, arctic politics, international security, environmental security, international relations theories.