"Welcoming of the 2024/25 Mercator- IPC Fellows"
The Welcoming of the 2024/25 Mercator-IPC Fellows was held on October 7 at The Seed, Sakıp Sabancı Museum with the Keynote Speech “How Technofeudalism Is Reshaping Societies, Economies and Geopolitics” by 2024 Mercator-IPC Visiting Senior Fellow Yanis Varoufakis. The speech was followed by welcoming remarks from Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program Coordinator Pelin Oğuz, Stiftung Mercator Director for Europe in the World Magdalena Kirchner, and President of Sabancı University Yusuf Leblebici. The event concluded with a movie screening that introduced the 2024/25 Mercator-IPC Fellows Johanna Wietschel, Samuele Abrami, Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu, Seren Selvin Korkmaz, and Onur Özmen.
Pelin Oğuz
Pelin Oğuz is Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program Coordinator. She received her PhD in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2016. Her dissertation is titled as: “The politics of nature and neoliberalism: An assessment of the impact of Hydroelectric Power plants on Local Populations”. She has publications focusing on politics of nature.
pelin.oguz@sabanciuniv.edu
Magdalena Kirchner
Dr. Magdalena Kirchner was appointed the Director for Europe in the World at Stiftung Mercator in January 2024.
m.kirchner@fes-afghanistan.org
Johanna Wietschel
Johanna Wietschel is a climate economist specializing in climate protection in the transportation sector. She currently works for Agora Verkehrswende in Berlin.
Samuele Carlo Ayrton Abrami
Samuele C.A. Abrami is a PhD candidate at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Milan, where he is also a subject expert and lecturer in the master’s in Middle Eastern Studies program.
Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu
Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu is a political scientist with an interest in political ecology, decentralization, local governments, civil society organizations, and citizenship.
zeynep.kadirbeyoglu@sabanciuniv.edu
Seren Selvin Korkmaz
Seren Selvin Korkmaz is the co-founder and co-director of the IstanPol Institute, where she served as the founding executive director until November 2023. A political scientist by training, Korkmaz completed her PhD at Stockholm University, where she is also a researcher at the Institute for Turkish Studies.
selvin.korkmaz@sabanciuniv.edu
Onur Özmen
Onur Özmen is a philosopher researching moral philosophy and realism. He completed his PhD on the philosophy of critical realism and ethics at the Institute of Education, University College London in 2022, where he explored the relations between dialectical thought, metatheories of and for science, and ethics.
onur.ozmen@sabanciuniv.edu