Dr. Bilgehan Alagöz is a faculty member at the Faculty of Political Sciences at Marmara University in Istanbul, where she teaches and conducts research on international relations and Middle East politics. From 2020 to 2024, she also served as Director of the Foreign Policy Desk at the Center for Iranian Studies in Ankara (İRAM).
She received her BA in International Relations from Istanbul University, and her MA and PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Marmara University. In 2008, she was a visiting fellow in the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Her research interests include foreign policy analysis, with a particular focus on Iranian foreign policy and Turkish-Iranian relations, as well as international relations theory, Middle East politics, and Persian Gulf studies.