Gul Deniz Salali

Ph.D. Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University College London

Gul Deniz Salali was a visiting master's student at the Culture, Cognition and Coevolution Lab. During this final phase of her master's, she conducted experiments on the imitation of costly punishment in children. She sought to investigate whether children aged 3 to 8 engage in costly punishment and if social influence has an effect on children's sense of fairness. In her research, she aims to combine biological and computational approaches with empirical ones in order to study human social evolution. 

After spending the first semester of her Erasmus Mundus Master's in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Groningen, she continued her master's at the University of Montpellier where she worked with Michael Hochberg on agent-based modeling projects: one on the evolution of cooperation and the other on the evolution of social complexity. She did her BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Istanbul Technical University. As a result of her flourishing interest in social evolution, she had the opportunity to work as an intern at the University of Lausanne and at the Trinity College Dublin on animal social behavior as an undergraduate.

Gul Deniz Salili is now a British Academy Research Fellow and a proleptic Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University College London.