Dr Alaattinoğlu successfully defended her PhD in law at the European University Institute in 2019. She currently works as a senior researcher at the Faculty of Law at the University of Turku on a project on attrition of sexual violence in the criminal law process. The project is commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Justice. Her research has been internationally and nationally published and awarded. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Melbourne (2018) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2019). Dr Alaattinoğlu's previous work experience includes working as a legal researcher at the Istanbul-based NGO TOHAV and a lecturer of criminal law at the Police College of Finland.