My general interest lies in modeling, control, and learning in the context of robotics. I am currently working as a robotics control software and reinforcement learning engineer at Agile Robots SE, where I develop RL policies for locomotion, navigation, and loco-manipulation on the Agile ONE humanoid robot. Before that, I worked as a robotics control engineer at Franka Emika, where I enhanced the performance of a 7-DOF cobot arm across different control layers, from low-level motor control to joint-level full state feedback and arm-level impedance control, and improved the underlying robot modelling and parameter identification.

I completed my Ph.D. on bipedal robot control in Dynamic Locomotion Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. The focus of my research was to investigate mechanisms for postural stability during running for humans, avians and bipedal robots. Prior to my Ph.D., I worked as a research engineer on motor simulation and control at Maxon Motor AG in Switzerland. I received my M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and my B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering at Sabancı University in Turkey, both of which had a focus on control theory in connection to quadrupedal robot locomotion.

My Ph.D. research explored potential control mechanisms to achieve postural stability in bipedal running based on simulated template models. In particular, I looked into functional requirements for using different trunk orientations during running and investigate energetical consequence of using different postural control strategies.