I have been doing my PhD studies on resting state and emotions at LABNIC under the supervision of Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier and Dr. Sophie Schwartz since fall 2007. Before my PhD, I obtained my Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, where I studied the spatial correlation between fMRI and EEG data obtained from steady-state visual evoked potentials.

Our research involves the assessment of the functional connectivity of the resting state of the human brain. Part of this study is related to the analysis of the "default mode" network and testing how resting state activity might be modulated by emotional manipulations. For the post-processing of the data, we use wavelet-based correlations and small-world network approaches. Methodological part of our project is done in collaboration with Dimitri Van De Ville from the MIPLab.