Gizem Kadıoğlu

Gizem Kadıoğlu is a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Communication, Culture, and Society at Università della Svizzera Italiana. She is awarded with Doc.CH grant given by the SNSF in March 2024. Her current research, funded by the Doc.CH grant, is centered around research methodology, with a particular emphasis on utilizing counterfactuals as a methodological tool in management and entrepreneurship studies.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Food Engineering from Middle East Technical University. Prior to pursuing an academic career, she worked as a Process Development Engineer at a starch production plant owned by a multinational corporation. She obtained her Master’s degree in Environmental and Food Economics at the Università degli Studi di Milano, specializing in Economics and Management of Agri-Food Systems.  Her master’s thesis is on assessing the impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity at a global level. Her master’s thesis evaluated the impacts of climate change on global agricultural productivity.

Gizem’s research focuses include qualitative research methods in management, climate change, sustainability, and agrifood systems.