RESUME
Dizem Ertaç Varoğlu was born on the 16th of November 1984 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Her father was a mathematics teacher and her mother a housewife. After she completed her primary education in Sehit Ertugrul Primary School, she went to the Near East College in order to get her secondary education. In 2004, she completed her bachelor’s degree on International Business at the St. Cloud State University, USA. Right after she came back to Cyprus, she worked as an economics teacher at the Near East College for the academic year 2004-2005.
Then she went to the UK and completed her master’s degree in Economics and Development at the University of Leeds. Between 2006 and 2012, Dizem Ertaç Varoğlu worked as a full-time lecturer in Economics at the Near East University. She has participated in many civil society and bicommunal events and projects.
She has been a member of the Committee of Directors of Catalköy Development and Culture Organization (CADER) and has been assisting the organization on project planning and appraisal issues, especially in EU-funded projects. Before 2012, her research interests were mainly economic development, international trade, macroeconomics and econometrics, and her research and work on these fields has been continuing.
However, in 2012 she moved to Brussels and started to pursue her PhD at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Her thesis is concerned with general equilibirum modeling and energy economics. She has been trained on general equilibrium modeling using the GAMS software, and has been involved in many conferences and trainings in this field. Her hobbies are travelling, reading, swimming and making puzzles. Dizem Ertaç Varoğlu is married and has two daughters.
Then she went to the UK and completed her master’s degree in Economics and Development at the University of Leeds. Between 2006 and 2012, Dizem Ertaç Varoğlu worked as a full-time lecturer in Economics at the Near East University. She has participated in many civil society and bicommunal events and projects.
She has been a member of the Committee of Directors of Catalköy Development and Culture Organization (CADER) and has been assisting the organization on project planning and appraisal issues, especially in EU-funded projects. Before 2012, her research interests were mainly economic development, international trade, macroeconomics and econometrics, and her research and work on these fields has been continuing.
However, in 2012 she moved to Brussels and started to pursue her PhD at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Her thesis is concerned with general equilibirum modeling and energy economics. She has been trained on general equilibrium modeling using the GAMS software, and has been involved in many conferences and trainings in this field. Her hobbies are travelling, reading, swimming and making puzzles. Dizem Ertaç Varoğlu is married and has two daughters.
RESEARCH FIELDS
CGE model | Energy policies | Turkey | Dynamic analysis
KEYWORDS
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most representative publications
- Empirical investigation of relationships between energy consumption, industrial production, CO2 emissions, and economic growth: the case of small island states, V Yorucu, DE Varoglu, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-98, 2020
- International transmission of monetary and global commodity price shocks to Turkey, İ Civcir, DE Varoglu, Journal of Policy Modeling 41 (4), 647-66517, 2019
- Constructing an Energy-Disaggregated Social Accounting Matrix for Turkey, DE Varoglu, A Bayar, 2nd International Conference on Energy, Regional Integration and Socio-Economic Development, 2014
- Segmenting student profiles on the usage of social networking media: A case study on Facebook, N Çavuş, D Ertaç-Varoğlu, R Serdaroğlu, 4th International Future-Learning Conference on Innovations in Learning for the Future 2012: E-Learning, 2012
- Turkey’s trade potential with euro zone countries: A gravity study, H Ozdeser, D Ertac, European Journal of Scientific Research 43 (1), 15-23
