Dr. Meltem Akoyak-Yildiz serves since August 2017 at the UNESCO Chair of Womens Empowerment and Gender Equality as an Assistant Professor (since 2018), Researcher and Ethics Committee member. She graduated with a M. S. in Pedagogic and Education Sciences with the secondary subjects in Sociology and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich Germany. She received her Ph. D. in the field of Education Sciences and Psychology with the focus on Compassion in higher Education (dissertation defense summa cum laude).