İlkan Can İPEKÇİ

İlkan Can İpekçi (they/he) is a postdoctoral research fellow at Sabancı University on a cross-cultural psychological research on young and aging populations and their memory and cognitive performances. They completed their Ph.D. in Gender Studies at the same university with a dissertation on queer* trauma and the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ people in Turkey in relation to their mental health struggles under the co-supervision of Prof. Sibel Irzık and Prof. Sibel Halfon. They hold dual BA degrees in Interpreting and Translation Studies (EN-ES-TR), and Psychology from Yeditepe University where they also completed their M.A. in Cultural Anthropology. They founded and currently act as the PI of Queer PSY-Force research lab.