I earned my PhD as an Early-Stage Researcher through the EU H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network project APRIL (Applications of Personal Robotics for Interaction and Learning) from University of Plymouth (UK) and SoftBank Robotics Europe (France). My PhD research focused on multi-modal personalisation in long-term human-robot interaction, particularly in rehabilitation and service robotics, under the supervision of Prof. Tony Belpaeme, Dr. Michael Garcia Ortiz, and Dr. Natalia Lyubova. I hold an MSc in computer engineering, with a specialisation in robotics and AI, from Boğaziçi University (Turkey), where I also served as a research and teaching assistant for 2 years. My Master’s thesis focused on user-centred task planning and manipulation for a dishwasher-loading robot, under the supervision of Prof. H. Levent Akın and Prof. Albert Ali Salah. I was also part of the Cerberus RoboCup team (2013–2015), where I designed motions and behaviours for robot football. I completed my BSc in mechanical engineering, graduating 3rd in my class from Boğaziçi University, with a focus on mechatronics. I also spent a semester as an exchange student at Purdue University (USA). For my senior project, I designed and built mobile educational robots that have since been used for over 13 years in the university’s robotics control course. More details are available in my CV.