Alper completed his PhD in 2019 at Istanbul University’s Institute of Social Sciences, Department of European Union. He is working as the office manager at ITU’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He has successfully completed three Erasmus Plus projects with an additional two ongoing. He is also coordinating the Jean Monnet Module entitled “EU Integration and Turkey”. He is currently conducting postdoctoral research on science diplomacy at the Chair of Science, Technology, and Gender Studies at FAU.”