Ayfer Erdogan studied Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages Education at Middle East Technical University and graduated in 2007. She holds Master of Arts in International Relations and Politics with Specialization in Eurasian Studies from Uppsala University in Sweden in 2010. In 2018, she completed PhD program in International Relations and Political Science at Yildiz Technical University. She is the author of Arab Spring-Arab Fall: Divergent Transitions of Tunisia and Egypt post Arab-Spring published by Lexington boks in 2021. Her research interests include Middle Eastern politics, authoritarianism, mass movements, regime change, democratic transitions, political Islam and civil society. Currently, she works as Dr. Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages at Yildiz Technical University.