Abdüssamet is a PhD student in Ottoman and Turkish Studies, specializing in the social history of science and medicine in the Early Modern World. His research employs a global micro-historical approach, focusing on go-betweens in the Early Modern Mediterranean, particularly Jewish physicians in Venice and the Ottoman Empire. His goal is to integrate the history of science with social and political history.
He received his BA degree in History, with a minor in Political Science, from Boğaziçi University, graduating with high honors. He holds an MSc in the History of Science and Technology from Istanbul Technical University. His master’s thesis, titled “New Medicine and the Democratization of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire,” explored science not only as intellectual production but also as a medium of communication in which diverse societal actors engaged in various forms of knowledge transmission.
Abdüssamet spent a semester as an exchange student at Leiden University. He has also interned and worked at institutions including the Turkish Society for History of Science, the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul, and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (FORTH) in Crete.