Serda Selin Öztürk  received her B.S. degree in Economics both from Bilgi University and University of London in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in Economics from University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 2009, with a focus on applied econometrics and started working as an Assistant Professor in Istanbul Bilgi university. In 2017 she got her tenure and appointed as an Associate Professor. Her research interest includes financial time series analysis, macroeconometric analysis and carbon taxation.