
Mey Bahar Buyukbabani

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About me
PhD Fellow, KU Leuven Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies | SWYPPe Researcher
Education

Özel Notre Dame de Sion Fransız Lisesi | Lycée Français Notre Dame de Sion
2013 - 2018High School DiplomaActivities and Societies: Student Council Member

KU Leuven
2025 - 2029PhD Fellow, Biomedical SciencesInstitute for Family and Sexuality StudiesFocus: Sexology, Healthy Psychology and PsychophysiologyPromoter: Prof. Dr. Erick JanssenCo-promoters: Dr. Rick Roels, Dr. Gunter De Win

Koç University
2018 - 2022Bachelor's degree PSYCHOLOGYPartial ScholarshipGraduated: Summa Cum Laude

University of Oxford
2022 - 2023Master of Science - MSc Psychological ResearchDissertation Title: The Effects of Arousal on Selective Attention: Distinguishing Sexual Arousal from Positive Non-Sexual Arousal (awarded Distinction)College Affiliation: St Catherine’s College
Experience

Hepsiburada
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020* Assisting on the tasks below while working in an agile environment:**Analyzing qualitative data, trends, strategies and competition aiming at increasing competitiveness.**Collecting data on consumers & competitors and consolidate information into actionable items, reports and presentations.**Interpreting data, formulate reports and make recommendations.**Understanding business objectives and design surveys to discover consumer insights.**Providing competitive analysis on various companies’ market offerings, identifying market trends, pricing/business models, sales and methods of operation.**Compiling of Month-end and other reporting via Excel.* Supporting the marketing team in daily administrative tasks.* Leading a project with other interns to understand and make recommendations about a specific audience group by designing and implementing survey, making desktop research, understanding their insights. Show less
Strategy & Marketing Research Intern
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020Human Resources Intern
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020

Koç University Undergraduate Psychology Journal
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022Associate Editor
Koç University
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021Research Study Assistant in KURAM Laboratory (Koç University Research in Applied Memory Lab) under the supervision of Dr. Berivan Ece (January 2021-February 2021; June 2021-present). Laboratory Team Member of SoMi (Social Minds) Lab (February 2021-Present) under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Terry Eskenazi.* Attend project meetings.* Attend area seminars and other meetings as necessary* As appropriate to the specified position, code and verify data in accordance with specified research protocol and coding procedures and enter data into a computer database and/or spreadsheet application for subsequent analysis* Review and edit data to ensure completeness and accuracy of information.* Perform diverse job-related duties as assigned by the supervisor. Show less Tutor of PSYC100 (Introduction To Psychology) under the supervision of Ayşe Altan Atalay.Course subjects: Foundations of psychology; perception; learning; intelligence; personality; brain and behavior, evolution and social relations.**Holding one-on-one tutoring sessions in Turkish or English in accordance with student’s needs.**Holding review sessions in English throughout the semester at the request of the instructor.**Helping students with the course according to what the instructor allows.**Aiding students on topics including time management, effective reading and note-taking, and exam preparation, among others. Show less
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021

University of Oxford
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025Lab Manager & Research Assistant of the Experimental Moral Psychology and Bioethics Lab at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Dr Brian Earp & Dr Joanna Demaree-Cotton.• Simultaneously carried out duties of research assistant and lab manager. Collaborated with a team of a multidisciplinary and international team of researchers; led studies concerning moral cognition. Experience gained spans from designing studies; creating and validating scales; conducting advanced statistical analysis with R; collecting and analysing data; and presenting findings.• Have co-led and co-designed seminar series on introduction to empirical methods for incoming student researchers. Gave workshops on the basics and fundamental aspects of experimental research such as programming surveys on software like Qualtrics. Held one-on-one meetings sessions as shadow supervision for undergraduate and MSc level psychology students per PI’s request.• Ensured the application of best practices in the lab; served as the primary contact for lab-related internal and external communications; performed all admin duties; kept the lab website up to date; managed and reported on the progress of projects; performed additional tasks per the supervisor's request. Show less
Laboratory Manager & Research Assistant
Sept 2023 - Jan 2025Student Representative on the MSc in Psychological Research Organising Committee
Nov 2022 - Sept 2023

National University of Singapore
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024Research ConsultantProject-based consultancy under the supervision of Professor Julian Savulescu.
Licenses & Certifications

TOEFL PBT
The TOEFL® test.webp)
Delf B2 Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française
Centre international d'études pédagogiques (CIEP)May 2017
Cognitive and Affective Neurophysiology Summer School :Acquisition, processing, and analysis of EEG signal
Universidade do PortoJul 2021
Royal Academy of Music, Piano, Grade 4
Royal Academy of Music
Cambridge B2 Certificate
Cambridge Assessment English
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Mey Bahar BuyukbabaniVehbi Koç Scholar Award Koç University Jun 2022 Vehbi Koç Scholar for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
- Awarded to Mey Bahar BuyukbabaniVehbi Koç Scholar Academic Award Koç University Jun 2021 Vehbi Koç Scholar for Fall 2020 and Spring 2021.
- Awarded to Mey Bahar BuyukbabaniVehbi Koç Scholar Academic Award Koç University Jun 2020 Vehbi Koç Scholar for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020.
- Awarded to Mey Bahar BuyukbabaniVehbi Koç Scholar Academic Award Koç University Jun 2019 Vehbi Koç Scholar for Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
Languages
- frFrench
- spSpanish
- enEnglish
- tuTurkish
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