Dr. Selin Zeytinoglu is a developmental scientist whose research aims to uncover how we become the unique individuals we are. She investigates how real-world social experiences with caregivers and peers, together with children’s own characteristics (e.g., temperament), dynamically contribute to children’s and adolescents’ social learning and emotional development. Her research investigates questions such as: 1) How do caregiver characteristics and parenting behaviors contribute to children’s ability to regulate their physiology, emotions, and cognition, especially under stress? 2) How and why are emotional strengths and difficulties, such as anxiety, shared or transmitted between family members, particularly in parent-child dyads? 3) How do naturalistic parent-child dynamics, such as verbal communication and attention patterns, contribute to children’s social learning and emotional outcomes? 

Dr. Zeytinoglu draws on developmental psychopathology, social learning, and dynamic systems frameworks to guide her research. She uses diverse data collection methods—including behavioral observation, mobile eye-tracking, and electrophysiological assessments (EEG/ERP, EKG). Her team applies data science and machine learning tools to automate the processing of video, gaze, and verbal communication data, and she employs a range of analytical techniques, such as structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, and intensive longitudinal methods.

Dr. Zeytinoglu works with students from different backgrounds and disciplines—including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and data science—reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of her research. 
 

https://www.selinzeytinoglu.com

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Zeytinoglu, S., White, L. K, Morales, S., Degnan, K., Henderson, H., Pérez-Edgar, K., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A. (in press). The roles of parental verbal communication and child characteristics in the transmission and maintenance of social fears. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14169 PDF

Fox, N. A., Zeytinoglu, S., Valadez, E., Buzzell, G., Morales, S., & Henderson, H. (2023). Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(4), 537-561. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13702 PDF

Zeytinoglu, S., Tang, A., Zeanah, C. H., Nelson, C., Almas, A. & Fox, N. A. (2023). Effects of institutional rearing and foster care intervention on the reciprocal relations between executive functions and social skills from middle childhood to adolescence. Developmental Science, 26(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13309 PDF

Zeytinoglu, S., *Neuman, K. J., Degnan, K. A., Almas, A. N., Henderson, H., Chronis‐Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N.A. (2022). Pathways from maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63(3), 342-349. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13477 PDF

Zeytinoglu, S., Calkins, S. D., & Leerkes, E. M. (2022). Autonomic profiles and self‐regulation outcomes in early childhood. Developmental Science, 25, e13215. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13215 PDF

Zeytinoglu, S., Calkins, S. D., Swingler, M. M., & Leerkes, E. M. (2017). Pathways from maternal effortful control to child self-regulation: The role of maternal emotional support. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 170-180. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000271 PDF

For a complete list of publications, see Dr. Zeytinoglu’s Google Scholar page.

My research interests center on elucidating the mechanisms governing cytoskeletal rearrangement, phagocytosis, and macropinocytosis in Dictyostelium discoideum, as well as investigating the molecular and genomic signatures, biomarkers, development, and lineage reprogramming of diverse cell types. Specifically, I focus on adipocytes with active Wnt/β-catenin signaling, corticothalamic projection neurons, and motor projection neurons. Through these studies, I aim to advance the development of cell therapies targeting metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity, as well as in vivo reprogramming strategies to repair neural circuits and treat neurodegenerative diseases, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Julius Oelsmann is a postdoctoral scientist in the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering at the School of Science and Engineering, Tulane University, since January 2025. He holds a doctoral degree in Geodesy and Oceanography from the Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut at the Technical University of Munich and a master’s degree from the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on disentangling the individual components of regional coastal sea-level change. In addition to climate-induced sea-level rise, a significant portion of relative sea-level change at the coast results from vertical land motion, including subsidence and uplift driven by various geophysical processes. To quantify these contributions, he integrates multiple observational techniques—including coastal altimetry, tide gauges, GNSS, and InSAR—with models of ocean and solid Earth dynamics. Using these constraints, he develops and applies statistical frameworks to assess the drivers and impacts of past and future sea-level changes.

Selected Awards and Recognitions

2022  Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award (EGU 2022) for the presentation entitled 'The impact of continuous space and time-resolving vertical land motion on relative sea level change' in the session Climate: Past, Present & Future

Recent Service Roles

Co-convener: Understanding sea level changes: global to local, from past to future, 2023, EGU23, Vienna, Austria
Convener: Coastal Altimetry Workshop, 2023, Cadiz, Spain

Teaching

Contributions to teaching the ‘Sea-Level Change’ course at Tulane
Contributions to teaching the ‘Oceanography and Satellite Altimetry’ course at TUM
Organisation of Summer school on Earth System Modeling (EaSyMS Summer School), Hamburg, 2018

Selected Publications

Oelsmann, J., Calafat, F. M., Passaro, M., Hughes, C., Richter, K., Piecuch, C., et al. (2024). Coherent modes of global coastal sea level variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2024JC021120. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021120

Wise, A., Calafat, F. M., Hughes, C. W., Jevrejeva, S., Katsman, C. A., Oelsmann, J., et al. (2024). Using shelf-edge transport composition and sensitivity experiments to understand processes driving sea level on the Northwest European shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2023JC020587. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020587

Oelsmann, J., Nicholls R., Lincke D., Marcos, M., Sánchez, L., Dettmering, D., Hinkel J., and Seitz,F. (2024): Coastal populations experience sea level rise twice as large as the global average, preprint: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3498360/v1, submitted at PNAS

Treu, S., Muis, S., Dangendorf, S., Wahl, T., Oelsmann, J., Heinicke, S., Frieler, K., and Mengel, M.: Reconstruction of hourly coastal water levels and counterfactuals without sea level rise for impact attribution, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-112, accepted 2023.

Cazenave A. and the Climate Change Initiative Coastal Sea Level Team, Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations, Nature Communications, Earth & Environment,3, 117, 10.1038/s43247-022-00448-z2022, 2022
Oelsmann, J., Marcos, M., Passaro, M. et al. Regional variations in relative sea-level changes influenced by nonlinear vertical land motion. Nat. Geosci. 17, 137–144 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01357-2

Oelsmann J., Passaro M., Sánchez L., Dettmering D., Schwatke C., and Seitz F. (2022). Bayesian modelling of piecewise trends and discontinuities to improve the estimation of coastal vertical land motion. Journal of Geodesy, 96(62), DOI: 10.1007/s00190-022-01645-6.

Oelsmann J., Passaro M., Dettmering D., Schwatke C., Sánchez L., Seitz F.: The zone of influence: matching sea level variability from coastal altimetry and tide gauges for vertical land motion estimation. Ocean Science, 17(1), 35--57, 10.5194/os-17-35-2021, 2021

Passaro M., Müller F.L., Oelsmann J., Rautiainen L., Dettmering D., Hart-Davis M.G., Abulaitijiang A., Andersen O.B., Høyer J., Madsen K., Ringgaard I., Särkkä J., Scarrott R., Schwatke C., Seitz F., Tuomi L., Restano M., Benveniste J.: Absolute Baltic Sea Level Trends in the Satellite Altimetry Era: A Revisit. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 10.3389/fmars.2021.647607, 2021

Oelsmann, J., Borchert, L., Hand, R., Baehr, J., & Jungclaus, J. H. (2020). Linking ocean forcing and atmospheric interactions to Atlantic multidecadal variability in MPI‐ESM1.2. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087259. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087259