Sep 2024 - Jun 2025
Dr Çağdaş Üngör is a CATS fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Studies (SWP) in the academic year 2024-2025. She is on leave from the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Marmara University in Istanbul, where she teaches since 2009.
Üngör holds a Ph.D. degree in Chinese modern history from the State University of New York in Binghamton. She previously studied Mandarin and conducted research in Wuhan and Beijing. As an academic, Dr. Üngör joined official delegations to visit several Asian countries and attended international workshops in the capacity of an area expert. She is a frequent commentator in Turkish and Western media outlets on China-related topics. Her studies concentrate on China’s ideological, economic and cultural impact on Turkey from the Cold War era until today.
CATS Fellow Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
Visiting Fellow May 2024 - Dec 2024
Dr Jens Bastian is a CATS fellow and independent economic analyst. He also serves as Senior Policy Advisor at ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy) in Athens, Greece.
His work focuses on China’s expanding infrastructure investment and bank lending footprint in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.
From September 2011 to September 2013 he was appointed by the European Commission as a member of the Task Force for Greece. His previous professional experience includes working as Lead Economist for the European Agency for Reconstruction in Thessaloniki, Greece, at Alpha Bank in Athens, Greece, as well as various academic positions held at St Antony’s College, Oxford, Nuffield College, Oxford and the London School of Economics, London. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in April 1993.
CATS Fellow Jun 2023 - May 2024
Visiting Fellow Jun 2024 - Jun 2025
Dr Salim Çevik is a CATS fellow. He previously worked as CATS Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). Prior to joining to SWP, he held research or teaching positions at Lund University (Sweden), Ipek University (Turkey), Bilgi University (Turkey) and Columbia University (USA). He earned his PhD degree in Political Science from Bilkent University (2015, Turkey).
His main area of research focusses on Turkish domestic politics and Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East and Africa.