Dr. Umut Ozguc serves as a Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. She earned her BA in International Relations from Ankara University, followed by an MA (Research) and PhD in Politics and International Relations from UNSW. Throughout her career, she has held lecturing and research positions at the Australian National University, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, Deakin University, and currently as Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. At Macquarie, she leads the Digital Border and AI Adaptation program at the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence and directs the Master of International Relations program from 2024 to 2026.

Ozguc's research specializations include critical border studies, settler colonialism, poststructuralism, posthumanism, security studies, international relations, political geography, continental philosophy, and history. Her earlier work addressed human security, racism, and managing cultural diversity. Key publications are 'Borders, Detention, and the Disruptive Power of the Noisy-Subject' (International Political Sociology, 2020), 'Rethinking border walls as fluid meshworks' (Security Dialogue, 2021), 'More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies' (Geopolitics, 2023), 'The Politics of Temporality and the Ethos of Open Societies: Transfrontier Conservation Areas as Spatio-temporal Chokepoints' (Geopolitics, 2023), and ''Broadening' and 'deepening' collective security in times of health crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond' (International Relations, 2025). She is the co-founder of the Australian Critical Border Studies Network, received a teaching award from ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific (2018), and the 2022 ANU Freilich Project Early Career Research Grant for mobility injustices and pandemic borders research. She is completing a book on borders in settler-colonial states.

Professional Email: u.ozguc@unsw.edu.au