Nuran Yildirim

Nuran Yildirim is a doctoral researcher at the Chair of Health Economics within the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Duisburg-Essen since October 2022. She holds an M.Sc. in Applied Economics and Social Development from National Chengchi University (Taipei City) and a B.Sc. in Political Science and Public Administration from Middle East Technical University (Ankara), including an exchange semester at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca).

• Education: M.Sc. Applied Economics and Social Development (National Chengchi University), B.Sc. Political Science and Public Administration (Middle East Technical University)
• Research Focus: Political economy, health economics, regional economics, and spatial data analysis

Her current research investigates the impact of railway infrastructure in Sweden, while her master's thesis analyzed spatial accessibility to healthcare services in Turkey. She has served as a teaching assistant for Econometrics and Health Economics courses.