Project Team
Dr. Beyza Ates
TOWER Developmental Academy
Founder and Director
Beyza Ateş received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the Middle East Technical University in 2002. She completed her master's and Ph.D. degrees in Developmental Psychology in 2009 and 2016 at Koç University. She is the founder and the director of Bilişsel Akademi Lab and KULE Gelişim Akademisi and an assistant professor of Psychology at MEF University, İstanbul, Turkey. Her research interests include academic, cognitive, and language development, referential communication, vocabulary acquisition, literacy development, and early childhood care and education quality. She works on babies', toddlers', and preschoolers' development using experimental and naturalistic methods and focusing on Bronfenbrenner's distinct developmental ecologies. Using a scientific approach and creative drama techniques, she designs various pieces of training for caregivers, including parents and teachers, on child development based on her experience as a researcher, developmental psychologist, observer, and trainer of Pre-K CLASS®.
Prof. Dr. Aylin Küntay
Koç University
Researcher
Prof. Dr. Nazlı Baydar
Koç University
Researcher
Prof. Dr. Aylin İlden Koçkar
İstanbul Bilgi University
Researcher
Doç. Dr. Bengi Yanık İlhan
Altınbaş University
Researcher
Dr. Ayşe Yetiş Bayraktar
Marmara University
Researcher
Macke Raymond
Stanford University
Advisor
Dr. Neslihan Turnalar Çetinkaya
MEF University
Volunteer Researcher
Dr. Cemile Ceren Sönmez
Koç University
Volunteer Researcher
Dr. Tuna
Çakar
MEF University
Volunteer Researcher
Eren Kaya
TOWER Developmental Academy
Coordinator
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Selin Özcan
Training Coordinator
3rd year student Department of Psychology, MEF University. His areas of interest are social cognition, cognitive development subfields of psychology. He aspires to an academic career.
She is studying at Istanbul Okan University, Clinical Psychology Master's Program. Her research interests include the effects of adolescents' perceived mother and father attitudes on self-compassion levels and communication skills, apart from clinical processes.
Melike Demirtürk
Training Coordinator
She graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Psychology in 2022. During her undergraduate education, she took part in various internships and social responsibility projects voluntarily. She is interested in social, emotional and cognitive development, autobiographical memory, family-child interaction in children.
Zeynep Şişman
Field Coordinator
Halime Demir
Communication Specialist
She graduated from Özyeğin University's psychology department as an honor student in 2022. She is currently continuing her education in the Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Master's Program at Işık University. Her research interests include parent-child relationships, peer adjustment, and educational psychology.
She continues her undergraduate education at Hacettepe University as a 4th year psychology student. During her undergraduate education, whe worked voluntarily in labs and took part in various social responsibility activities.