Elif is PhD student in Division of Ecology, Department of Biology at Hacettepe University. She completed her MSc in our lab with her study on the effect of the Late Quaternary climate changes on the geographic distribution in Quercus robur using ecological niche modeling. She is currently studying the climatic and trait-based drivers of the distribution of Quercus (oak) taxa throughout the western Palearctic realm. She worked on oak genetics in USA for a while with a TÜBİTAK scholarship. Click for her full CV.