Deniz is from Eskisehir, Turkey. She received her B.A. degree in Economics from Bogazici University. Since she felt the desire to have a more critical and interdisciplinary approach to explore the boundaries of economics as a social science, she obtained her M.A. degree in Cultural Studies from Istanbul Bilgi University. She is interested in economic anthropology, political economy, and psychoanalysis. For her Ph.D., she aims to study Turkish financial markets to pursue the question of how financial imagination shapes the economic field, as well as how the machinery of financial markets is sustained by the actions of financial actors.