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Senem Aydın-Düzgit is a Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center and a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University. Aydın-Düzgit is also a non-resident researcher at the European Policy Institute at Bocconi University. In 2023-2024, she was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin and in 2024-2025, she served as the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Aydın-Düzgit’s main research interests include identity, history, and discourse in the study of international politics, with an empirical focus on European and Turkish foreign policies; and more recently, the nexus between domestic and foreign policies of middle powers in the changing international order. She has also conducted research and published in the field of international democracy support, both in the context of European foreign policy through enlargement and Turkish foreign policy. She holds a Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from Boğaziçi University.

Her articles have appeared in many of the leading journals in international relations and European politics, including the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Democracy, International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, and West European Politics. She is the author of Turkey and the European Union (with Nathalie Tocci) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Constructions of European Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; Turkish edition 2015).

Aydın-Düzgit is a council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE), a member of the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network, and an academic advisory board member of the Institüt für Europaische Politik. She also serves as the co-editor of the Future of Europe book series (Springer) and sits on the editorial boards of the following journals: Journal of European Integration, Journal of Language and Politics, South European Society and Politics, New Perspectives on Turkey. She was awarded the Young Scientist Award of Turkey’s Science Academy (BAGEP) in 2014.