Elif Şeyma Şişman is a research fellow in the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Salento and a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Department of European Union and International Economic Relations at Ankara University. She has been a visiting PhD student at the University of Salento through The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey International Research Fellowship Programme. Her research interests primarily focus on EU politics, governance, policies and discourses of climate change, and comparative politics.