Berfin Çakın is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, working on the REVOLT project, which focuses on the long-term impacts of protests on democracy.

Her primary research interests include political polarization, civil society, gender and politics, public opinion, and quantitative text analysis. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with a specialization in Political Psychology from Istanbul Medeniyet University and a Master’s Degree from the University of Twente. She was a visiting scholar at Radboud University Nijmegen, the University of Trento, and the Austrian Institute for International Affairs. Her paper, based on her Ph.D. thesis, was awarded the Best Paper Prize by the Council for European Studies’ Gender and Sexuality Network in 2022, and her co-authored work on political gender stereotypes received the Best Paper Prize from the ECPR Parliamentary Studies Standing Group in 2024.

Research interests: gender and politics, emotions, civil society, quantitative text analysis, political polarization, and public opinion