LecturerTarık İsmet ALKAN

Studied Computer Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology on a full scholarship, then completed an MSc in Advanced Computer Science at the University of York in the United Kingdom on a Ministry of National Education scholarship.

He holds a second undergraduate degree in Economics, and a Level 2 Capital Market Activities Licence.

He is completing a Master of Laws at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, with a thesis titled "A Public Law Architecture for the Digital Turkish Lira".

His main research interests are decentralised finance, central bank digital currencies, distributed ledger technology and capital markets law.

For six years he has served as an evaluator and jury member at TEKNOFEST, the Aerospace and Technology Festival organised by the T3 Foundation.

He also has an interest in literature. His story "Buğu" won first place in the Osman Şahin Short Story Award organised by Toroslar Municipality, chosen from 503 entries submitted from Turkey and abroad, and was published in the anthology collecting the winning stories.