Esma Betül Savaş is a PhD researcher in NIDI with a background in Comparative Literature and Psychology in Koç University followed by the Behavioral Science Research Masters in Radboud University. Currently, she is involved with the project of International Retirement Migration. In this project, she is interested in how retired migrants’ well-being is affected by the activities they are involved in in their destination country.
June 2025 she successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Retirement reimagined: The determinants and social consequences of international retirement migration‘ at the University of Groningen.
