Seren Selvin Korkmaz is a co-founder and co-director of the Istanbul-based think tank IstanPol, where she served as the General Director from 2018 to 2023.

She is currently a researcher at the Turkey Studies Center at Stockholm University, teaching courses on Turkish and Middle Eastern politics. In 2023, she was selected as a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S., where she received training on transatlantic relations and participated in work visits to the United States. In 2024, she was chosen for the TUSIAD-Mercator Turkey-Europe Future Forum. Korkmaz has held positions as a Turkey expert at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, a policy advisor at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, and a Fellow at the Swedish Institute of Research. She has worked as a researcher at Yale University under the Fox International Fellowship, where she received training in leadership and policy proposal development. She provides policy consulting to national and international institutions and actors.

Since 2013, she has worked as a researcher and manager at various civil society organizations and research centers. She participates in working groups focused on Turkey-Europe and Turkey-U.S. relations, as well as the future of democracy at international think tanks. She has organized and participated in initiatives that bring together political actors in Turkey with their counterparts and representatives from think tanks in Europe and the U.S. Korkmaz is continuing her doctoral studies at Stockholm University and holds her bachelor's and master's degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University. Her research areas include populism, political parties, voter perception, electoral strategies, the strategies of opposition parties in authoritarian regimes, and Turkey-U.S. relations.