Zeynep Beyza Yildizdan is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Vienna, with the WWTF project Citizen-centered Democratic Innovation: Understanding Citizen Preferences for Participatory Budgeting Algorithms. 

She holds a Master of Science in European and International Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Public Administration from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.