Begum Celiktutan is a Doctoral Candidate in Consumer Behavior at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her research focuses on social judgements and differences in the way consumers perceive themselves and others. She explores self-other differences in the context of technology, particularly regarding the recognition of biases and perceptions of intellectual property, as well as in the context of consumption.

Her research has been published in leading journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and the International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM).

During her PhD studies, she spent time as a visiting student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. Begum holds a BSc degree in International Relations (2015) with a minor degree in Psychology from Middle East Technical University. She also completed an MA degree in Management at Bogazici University (2019) and a Research Master’s degree in Marketing at Tilburg University (2020).