Önder Küçükural is an assistant professor at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute. He received his PhD in Sabanci University, Political Science Program. He was a visiting researcher at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim- Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 2011/12. He is one of the coauthors of books Yaşlılar ve Yaşlı Yakınları Açısından Yaşam Biçimi Tercihleri, [Lifestyle choices of the elderly from the elderly’s perspective and that of their relatives - 2004] Türkiye’de Dindarlık [Religiosity in Turkey - 2012], and “Türkiye’de spiritüel arayışlar” [Spiritual Seeking in Turkey - in press, 2020]. Recently, he worked in the TUBİTAK sponsored project on argumentation, reasoning, and decision-making in innovation-oriented industry sectors in Portugal and Turkey (2016-2019). His research interest includes argumentation and reasoning, religiosity, discourse analysis, ecology and gender studies. He offers graduate level courses at Alliance of Civilisations Institute on discourse analysis and argumentation, political sociology, ecology and research methods.