Dr. Ersoy Erdemir is an Associate Professor of early childhood education and child/family studies and a faculty member of the Primary Education Department at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He works as an education consultant and researcher at Mother Child Education Foundation (AÇEV). Currently, he is a visiting scientist at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM).

With extensive research and project experience in early childhood education and family support services, he has been part of multiple significant studies as a principal researcher or a co-principal researcher. He is working currently as a Principal Researcher, directing investigations into school readiness for displaced children collaborating with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe and in another project on two-generation early intervention approach for disadvantaged families, funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). He co-led "The Child Has a Voice" project funded by the EU and served as an appraisal consultant for an early education program for Syrian and local children in Turkey. Supported by organizations like UNICEF, GIZ, and the Goethe Institute, his work focused on early education, integration, and the impact of multimodal texts on children’s learning. He also directed the EMERGE Project, enhancing early math curriculum efficacy, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. He has been granted with the 2024 Young Scientist Award by the Science Academy of Türkiye for his work in the field of early childhood education and child/family studies.

His current research focuses on (1) social adversities in early childhood: poverty, migration, displacement, abuse/neglect; (2) ecologically driven early education and parent support interventions for families from vulnerable environments; (3) adverse and positive childhood experiences; (4) vulnerability/risk factors and resilience/supportive factors in early development.

He has received his Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Learning and Instruction at the State University of New York at Buffalo with a specialization in early childhood education and foreign language education in preschool.