Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Istanbul Technical University

Dr. Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ). She teaches labor economics, the economics of education, and health economics. Her research focuses on the evaluation of policies through empirical microeconomic studies, concentrating on women, children, and refugees. She is visiting the Business Center for Advancement in Health (BACH) at the University of Minnesota as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow in the 2023-2024 academic year. Her work was published in economics and health policy journals, including the Journal of Health Economics and the International Journal of Health Planning and Management. Her research has been funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and the Economic Research Forum (ERF). She is a recipient of a career grant from TÜBİTAK, through which she will build a research agenda about underlying mechanisms of mental health in Turkey. In 2020, she was a researcher on a project to study the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Turkish households. The project teams’ policy briefs received international and national recognition, had a media impact, and were featured in media coverages, including print and television. In 2021-2022, she was the vice-president of İTÜ career center, where she co-led essential projects, including managing new graduates' labor force surveys. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Northeastern University, and BA degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University.