Yağmur is a PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT since 2020. Her research interests encompass Economics of Innovation, Economics of Science, Science of Science, and Science and Technology Policy. Her research focuses on crowdfunding for scientific research and she is particularly interested in how the crowdfunding mechanism could fit into the overall funding landscape in the context of scientific research.

She holds a Master’s degree in Science and Technology Policy Studies from Middle East Technical University (METU) and a Bachelor’s degree in International Finance from Ozyegin University, Turkey.