Peren Özturan is a faculty at Özyeğin University, Turkey. Prior to that, she worked at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a Ph.D. in Marketing (2013) from Koç University, Turkey. Before joining academia, she used to work in the financial sector with several roles in the economic research, capital markets, and marketing departments. She is passionate about research, teaching, and as well yoga. She received her Yin Yoga Teacher Training in 2019 from Hellen van der Harten by following Yoga Alliance 200hrs. registered curriculum. She is married and has one child.