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 scientists' research trajectories under different science funding mechanisms, such as well-established traditional-like European grants (i.e., ERC and MSCA) and crowdfunding for scientific research as an atypical financial source for the scientific community. She is particularly interested in how traditional and crowdfunding mechanisms influence research agendas and career paths.

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.

	Selected publications by Yağmur Yıldız
Research reports
Budraitis, Mantas, Paulius Pranckevicius, Ruta Delkute, A. Notten, Nordine Es-Sadki, René Wintjes, Fabiana Visentin, Tommaso Ciarli, Davide Bonaglia, Bulat Sanditov, Yağmur Yıldız & Diego Chavarro, 2023, Evaluation study of the European framework programmes for research and innovation for excellent science : Horizon 2020 : annexes, Publications Office of the European Union, The study presents lessons learned and recommendations for policy on excellent science under Horizon 2020. This is one of several support studies feeding into the European Commission's ex-post evaluation of the European framework programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020, DOI: 10.2777/353383, More information
Budraitis, Mantas, Paulius Pranckevicius, Rute Delkute, Ad Notten, Nordine Es-Sadki, René Wintjes, Fabiana Visentin, Tommaso Ciarli, Davide Bonaglia, Bulat Sanditov, Yağmur Yıldız & Diego Chavarro, 2023, Evaluation study of the European framework programmes for research and innovation for excellent science; Horizon 2020 : phase 1 final study report, The study presents lessons learned and recommendations for policy on excellent science under Horizon 2020. This is one of several support studies feeding into the European Commission's ex-post evaluation of the European framework programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020, DOI: 10.2777/967813, More information