Deniz grew up in Istanbul, went to Notre Dame de Sion middle school and Robert College. She then moved to the UK to undertake her BA degree in Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. She wrote her PhD thesis on "Coexistence, Conviviality and Memory in Multi-Faith, Multi-Ethnic Burgaz, The Princes Islands of Istanbul" at the University of Sussex, Department of Anthropology, where she also taught anthropology. In October 2012, she successfully defended her PhD thesis . In between Oct 2012 - Feb 2014, she worked as a post-doctoral research fellow for the EUCROSS project at the University York, focusing on Turkish migration to the UK, Denmark, Germany, and Italy. She worked as a postdoc at the Media, Cognition and Communication Department at the University of Copenhagen, within the Eurochallenge and Transsol (Horizon 2020) projects. She is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the Communication and Media dept. at Lund University. Her research interests include conviviality, multiculturalism, diversity, social media, media anthropology, anthropology of Turkey, and migrants in Europe. She has published book chapters and journal articles in the South European Society, Southeast Europe and Black Sea Studies and Politics and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She currently teaches Digital Ethnography, Digital Research Methods, Qualitative Data Analysis with Software (Nvivo), and Media and Diversity at Masters Level.She is very bad in keeping up to date her social media profiles. Please visit her university website for updated list of publications and research activities. https://www.kom.lu.se/en/person/DenizNerimanDuru/