As a Chinese political scientist based in Istanbul, I am a postdoctoral researcher as guest researcher at the Department of Political Science, Istanbul University, Türkiye, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ateş Uslu. Concurrently, I serve as a postdoctoral researcher at Research & Development Centre on Law and Society (CEDIS), Faculty of Law, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, supervised by Prof. Dr. Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and as a visiting scholar at Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, hosted by Dr. Andrés Malamud.

I obtained my PhD in Political Science and International Relations from Izmir University of Economics, Türkiye, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Devrim Sezer. 

Education

2021-2025 PhD in Political Science, Izmir University of Economics, Türkiye

2019-2021 MA in Economics and Quantitative Finance, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2015-2019 BA in Economics, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

Research Field

My research examines how decentralized political and constitutional orders can sustain social cooperation and collective self-governance in complex and pluralistic societies. It draws on political philosophy and the history of political thought, and engages with themes such as federalism, autonomy, associational democracy, and anarchism, as well as the ways in which decentralized technologies may reshape economic coordination and governance.

Recent Research Highlight

My article "The Cognitive Infrastructure of Economic Action", combining political economy with political and economic philosophy, is the latest statement of the research field outlined above. It asks how the cognitive preconditions of economic action—a stable unit of account, traceable causal links, and correctable feedback loops—can be destroyed and rebuilt, and what this implies for decentralized cooperation and self-governance. (One of my recent publications; full list [here].)

"Popper believed the transition to an open society occurs when we recognize our freedom to change institutions through critical reason. Hayek believed it occurs when we accept governance by abstract rules we should not try to change (Notturno, 2018, pp. 19–20). Milei’s project demands both. It demonstrates that institutions can be consciously remade. It simultaneously seeks to lock them into mechanisms that resist further alteration. This tension is built into the structure of post-collapse reconstruction... The open society is a wager that the strain of freedom can be borne. Milei’s experiment has placed that wager on the table." 

Collaboration

I am a diligent researcher, currently having multiple studies in progress. Any collaboration and discussion are welcome.