Paula Lobato Gonzalez is a Ph.D. researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), specialised in the treatment of gender in politics in Turkey. She graduated in both Sociology and Political Science and holds a Master’s degree in “European Union and the Mediterranean: Historical, Cultural, Political, Economic and Social Basis” from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She has worked as a research intern and assistant lecturer at Marmara University in Istanbul.