Dr. Gökten Doğangün completed her undergraduate studies in Public Administration at Hacettepe University. She continued her graduate studies in Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University (METU). She conducted post-doctoral research in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She worked as a researcher and coordinator in Centre for Black Sea and Central Asia (2007-2020). Currently, she works as the manager of Horizon Europe project, entitled ENRICH-TOGETHER, at METU. Her field of interests cover Russian Politics, Turkish Politics, Gender and Politics in Turkey and Russia. Her publications appear in Politics and Gender, Geopolitics and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.