Deniz completed her BA in Psychology as magna cum laude at Ege University in Turkey. She is awarded with the scholarship for postgraduate studies from the Turkish Ministry of Education and completed her MA in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at King’s College London and continues her studies at the Developmental Psychopathology Lab under supervision of Dr Edward D Barker and Dr Jennifer Lau.

Research interests

• Investigating comorbidity between depression and anxiety in adolescents via network analytic techniques
• Symptom-to-symptom interactions between depression and anxiety in adolescents
• The role risk factors and protective factors play in comorbid depression and anxiety
• The role biological factors (e.g. polygenic risk scores, regional brain volumes, epigenetic changes) play in comorbid depression and anxiety