Ebru Turhan works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science & International Relations of the Turkish-German University of Istanbul. She was the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “INSITER-Inside the Turkey-EU Relations” (www.insiter.tau.edu.tr), co-financed by the European Commission (2016-19). She also serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin.Before joining the Turkish-German University, Turhan was a 2013/14 Mercator-IPC Fellow and post-doctoral researcher at Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) of the Sabancı University. From During 2006-2013, she worked at the Berlin Representation of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), where she held the position of senior expert and project manager. She received her MA degree in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Bath, UK (distinction) and her PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne, Germany (summa cum laude).Turhan’s current research interests include EU-Turkey affairs, decolonizing and degendering knowledge in IR/EU studies, external differentiated integration , German-Turkish relations, German foreign policy, frame analysis and postfunctionalism.