I am currently a research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. I received my B.Sc. in Chemistry and Physics and M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. I conducted my doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany studying synthesis and characterization of intermetallic clathrates with Prof. Yuri Grin. Before joining to Northwestern University, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology investigating novel thermoelectric materials with Prof. G. Jeffrey Snyder. My work has resulted in the publication of 52 research papers so far.