Category: Current member

Affiliation: Sabancı University, TR

Keywords: International Relations, European Foreign Policy, Turkish Foreign Policy, Discourse Studies, European Studies

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Senem Aydın-Düzgit is Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University and Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center.

She was previously Jean Monnet Chair of EU Political and Administrative Studies in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her main research interests include European foreign policy, Turkish foreign policy, EU-Turkey relations, discourse studies and identity in international relations and particularly in European foreign policy. She has also conducted research and published in the field of international democracy support, both in the context of European foreign policy through enlargement and Turkish foreign policy. She holds a Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from Boğaziçi University. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, Cooperation and Conflict, Third World Quarterly, Politics, South European Society and Politics, Alternatives, Journal of Language and Politics, Uluslararası İlişkiler, and Politique Europeenne. She is the author of (with Alper Kaliber) Is Turkey De-Europeanising? (Routledge, 2017), (with Nathalie Tocci) Turkey and the European Union (Palgrave, 2015) and Constructions of European Identity (Palgrave, 2012). She is a member of the ECFR Council and a member of the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network. She also serves as the Associate Editor of South European Society and Politics. She was awarded the Young Scientist Award of Turkey’s Science Academy (BAGEP) in 2014.

Affiliation: Akdeniz University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Antalya, TR

Keywords: Urban and regional development, Economic geography, Tourism cities, Governance in cities, Global value chains, Economic diversification, Innovation in tourism, State rescaling and business relations, Resilience in tourism cities, Fictional expectations

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Hilal Erkuş studied on urban and regional economic development at Middle East Technical University and has finished her PhD at that university. She got her PhD grade in 2008 on local tourism development based on the perspective of clustering and level of networking in tourism firms and organizations which is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ayda Eraydın and her PhD thesis is awarded as the best PhD thesis of the year, given by METU. Later on, she worked as a Post-Doc researcher between 2009 to 2010 March at University of Amsterdam and collaborated with Dr. Pieter Terhorst on ‘Governance of Urban Tourism in Designing Tourism Development: Amsterdam, Antalya, Liverpool Compared’ and “Global Value Chains in Tourism Cities”. During her research, she has had various experiences on science policy of her country, Turkey, and science policy of other countries such as the Netherlands and the UK. In Ph.D.-Thesis writing process, she also joined an international COST A26 Project as a researcher between 2005-2008 under the main theme “European city-regions in an age of multi-level governance- reconciling competitiveness and social cohesion?”, “New Organizational Models and Development Strategies: The Development of Multi-Level Governance Models by reconciling competitiveness and social cohesion for newly developing City regions in Turkey”. This project developed her teamwork capacity.

She is currently working as a full professor at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. She studied on economic diversification and homogenization in tourism cities at Akdeniz University, and this 1001 project granted by prestigous institution, TUBITAK (Turkey Science and Technologhy Research Institution). In 2019, TUBITAK awarded this project by “Project Performance Award” according to the outstanding publications from her project. Later, she worked on economic resilience in crisis cities and factors defining firm survival strategies in crisis. This project was funded and awarded by The Science Academy (https://en.bilimakademisi.org/the-science-academy-why/) in Turkey as the first project awarded in the field of urban and regional science. She was also awarded as a Outstanding Young Scientist Award given by Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). By the support of TÜBA, she is currently working on future fictional expectations of (tourism) cities experiencing both economic, natural and political crisis. In line with this framework, she works on fictional expectations for future tourism cities. Climate change is one of this risk and she wants to contribute on future strategies of European cities and science policy to contribute development.

Apart from her projects and publication, she also contributed to Regional Science by collaborating with Regional Studies Association, UK. As a Turkey Ambassador of Regional Studies Association (RSA) (http://www.regionalstudies.org/networks/ambassador/hilal-erku-oeztuerk), she tries to support academics in her field on regional studies and development.  In addition, she contributed to strategic plans of her university and worked as an outstanding member of Research and Development Commission of Akdeniz University (see http://argek.akdeniz.edu.tr/hakkimizda/kurul-uyeleri/) to stimulate international projects and publications for her university at the local level.

Affiliation: Koç University, Istanbul, TR

Keywords: Language and cognitive development, Language-thought interaction, Multimodal communication, Neuropsychology of language

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Tilbe Göksun is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Koç University and the director of the Language and Cognition Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Temple University (Philadelphia, US) in 2010. Her dissertation examined children’s conceptualization of events and how this process interacts with language learning. Between 2010 and 2013, she did her postdoctoral work at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, US). She conducted research with individuals having focal brain injury and examined language-thought interactions in this population. Her research employs methods and perspectives from developmental and cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neuropsychology, focusing on interdisciplinary, multi-method, cross-linguistic research, and multilevel analyses. Tilbe received the James S. McDonnell Foundation Human Cognition Scholar Award in 2017, The Science Academy, Turkey’s Young Scientist Award in 2015, and the Turkish Academy of Science Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2018. Her research projects have been funded by the European Union Commission, James S. McDonnell Foundation, and TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).

Affiliation: University of Montpellier, FR

Keywords: 2D Materials, Electrocatalysis, Artificial photosynthesis, Molecular sieving, Nanolaminate membranes

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Dr. Damien VOIRY received his MS degree in materials science from the University of Bordeaux in 2007. He completed his PhD on chemistry of nanostructured carbons from the University of Bordeaux in 2010. From 2011 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Professor Manish Chhowalla at Rutgers University, USA. His postdoctoral work dealt with phase engineering of exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenides nanosheets for electronic and electrocatalysis applications. In 2016, Damien was appointed as a CNRS researcher at the European Institute of Membranes (IEM) at the University of Montpellier. He was awarded an ERC starting Grant in 2018 for investigating the electrocatalytic performance of two-dimensional materials towards the electrochemical reduction of CO2 and their integration into vdW heterostructures for artificial photosynthesis.
Damien’s research group focuses on exfoliated two-dimensional materials and heterostructures for energy and nanofluidic applications.

Affiliation: Basque Centre for Materials Applications and nanostructures, Leioa, ES

Keywords: Renewable energy, Nanotechnology, Materials science, Organic semiconductors, Photophysics, Plasmonics, Exciton dynamics, Interfacial engineering

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Dr. Kazim is Ikerbasque Fellow & group leader at Basque Centre for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures. Prior to this, she worked at corporate research center of multinational Abengoa, as a tenured Senior scientist (2013-2017). She studied Materials chemistry and earn her Ph.D degree (2008) in the field of conducting polymers. She was hired as a post-doc fellow at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India) to investigate polymer-clay nanocomposites as functional materials. Subsequently, she was awarded IUPAC/UNESCO fellowship at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague and later, appointed as staff scientist (2009-2013) to study “plasmonic nanocomposites”. She has disseminated her work in several conferences as Keynote, Invited and oral presentation and published over 50 research articles in reputed journals in the field of material science, energy and nanotechnology, and inventor of numerous patents in the field of energy conversion and storage. Her research mission is to design and investigate new semiconductors materials for optoelectronics applications.

Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark, DK

Keywords: Turbulence (theory, experiments and simulations), Fluid mechanics, Flow control, Vortex dynamics, Development of improved optical measurement techniques for fluid mechanics/turbulence

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Dr. Clara M. Velte received her Ph.D. in experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics from the Technical University of Denmark in 2009. After several extended stays abroad with leading research groups in her field, she became Associate Professor in Fluid Mechanics at the Technical University of Denmark in 2012 to develop teaching and research in advanced fluid mechanics and turbulence. In 2018, she received an ERC Starting Grant to build a state-of-art laboratory facility to test the bounds of validity of the classical theory of turbulence. This was in 2019 supplemented with a Turbulence Centre of Excellence – a long-term collaboration with the Poul Due Jensen Foundation to develop improved models for turbulence. The results are expected to be of fundamental and applied interest alike and the work is with time expected to extend into other fields of application of fluid mechanics and turbulence. A strong focus on maintaining an interdisciplinary approach and tailoring the investigations to the research question asked (using suitable combinations of theory, experiments and simulations) is central to the research philosophy of her group.

Webpages: http://www.trl.mek.dtu.dk/

Affiliation: University of Cambridge, UK

Keywords: Earth sciences, Global seismology, Geophysics, Deep Earth

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Dr. Sanne Cottaar  is a global geophysicist studying the structure, composition, and dynamics of the deep Earth, and their relationship to surface processes and planetary evolution.  Her approach is both data-driven, hunting for clues constraining the deep Earth in earthquake waveforms; and multi-disciplinary, working with mineral physicists and geodynamicists to understand the implications of the observations.  Sanne has worked at all depths within the Earth, from the crust to the inner core. A large part of her work has uncovered the composition and dynamics of mantle plumes which source locations of intra-plate volcanism, like Hawaii and Iceland. She was the first to map the root to the Hawaiian mantle plume at 3000 km depth.

After studying geophysics at Utrecht University, Sanne completed her PhD at the University of Berkeley, California, in 2013 on ‘Heterogeneity and Flow in the Deep Earth’. She then became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, funded by an independent Drapers’ Company Research Fellowship from Pembroke College. In 2015, she became a university lecturer at the University of Cambridge and started to build her research group in global seismology. Currently, Sanne holds an ERC Starting Grant to zoom into and understand Earth’s major internal boundary: the core-mantle boundary.

Sanne and her team are currently working on bringing their research to the wider public with a year-long interactive exhibit at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, entitled ‘Deep Earth Explorers’.

Sanne Cottaar received the Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award from the American Geophysical Union in 2015. In 2019, she was the Bullerwell lecturer, awarded by the British Geophysical Association. Sanne became a Fellow at the Young Academy of Europe in 2020.

Affiliation: Department of Plant Anatomy, ELTE – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HU

Keywords: Biophysics, Cell biology, Photosynthesis, Physiology, Plant biology, Plastid ultrastructure, SANS, Stress, TEM

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Katalin Solymosi is a plant biologist who graduated and obtained her PhD at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest, Hungary), where she actually works as assistant professor at the Department of Plant Anatomy. She is teaching various aspects of plant cell biology, anatomy, physiology and pharmaceutical botany at all levels of education (BSc, MSc, PhD) at Eötvös Loránd University and also at Semmelweis University (Budapest), and was invited lecturer at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France (2006-2010, 1 month each academic year).

Besides a relatively heavy teaching load, her research is actually focused on the effects of biotic and abiotic stress (e.g. salt and drought stress) on plastid structure and function with emphasis on photosynthesis. In addition, her research interests include medicinally important metabolites produced by plastids and natural food colorings. She spent 6 years on maternity leave with her two children, during which she was involved in several national and international collaborations (with Prof. Benoit Schoefs at the University of Burgundy and later at the University of Le Mans, FR; with Prof. Cornelia Spetea Wiklund and Prof. Henrik Aronsson at Gothenburg University, SE, and Dr. Beata Mysliwa-Kurdziel at the Jagiellonian University, PL), and prepared several reviews and book chapters. After returning from maternity leave, she started her own lab with the help of national grants. She is actually supervising 2 PhD students and 3 MSc students.

She was awarded by several national scientific societies (e.g. Hungarian Biophysical Society, Hungarian Society for Microscopy, Hungarian Society for Plant Anatomy), and by the l’ORÉAL-UNESCO Women in Science national scholarship. She is a member of the editorial board of Botany Letters since 2013, and is actually the head of the Section of Photobiology of the Hungarian Biophysical Society.

She is a founding member of the Hungarian Young Academy, and member of its first board (2019-2020). She took part in the analyses of the first survey on young scientists in Hungary. She is devoted to public dissemination of science by papers, facebook posts and programs related to Researchers’ Night, Fascination of Plants Day. She also likes to link science and arts, won different prizes at various microscopy photo contests and had several individual and collective exhibitions of microscopic images.

Affiliation: Radboud University, NL

Keywords: Philosophy of technology, Digital ethics, Digital health, Self-tracking, AI, Political economy of data use

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Tamar Sharon is Associate Professor in philosophy of technology and scientific director of the Interdisciplinary Hub for Security, Privacy and Data Governance (iHub) at Radboud University in the Netherlands. Tamar received her PhD from Bar Ilan University in Israel in 2011 (cum laude). Between 2011-2018 she was a postdoc and assistant professor in the Science and Technology Studies group at Maastricht University and a visiting researcher at King’s College in 2014. Her research explores the impacts of new and emerging technologies on society from an empirical-philosophical perspective, and seeks to develop normative responses to the challenges posed by digitalization to public values and the common good. Her current project examines the “Goolgization of health”, or the increasing role played by large tech companies like Google and Apple in medical research and health provision. Tamar’s research has been funded by personal grants from the Dutch Research Council (Rubicon, VENI, VIDI) and the European Research Council (Starting Grant awarded in 2018). In 2015, she received the Edmond Hustinx Prize for Science. Tamar is a member of the WHO European Advisory Committee on Health Research.

Affiliation: Leiden University, NL

Keywords: Organic chemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, Coordination chemistry, Molecular nanotechnology, Molecular switches, Photochromism, Self-assembly, Anion binding

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Sander studied chemistry at the University of Nijmegen where he carried out his Master’s research in the group of Prof. Roeland Nolte. He then moved to Tarragona for his PhD studies in the field of supramolecular chemistry with Prof. Arjan Kleij at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ). During this period he spent three months as a visiting researcher in the group of Prof. Joseph Hupp at Northwestern University. After receiving his PhD in 2011, he joined the group of Prof. François Diederich at ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral fellow. Two years later he moved to the University of Groningen to work with Prof. Ben Feringa and he was appointed Assistant Professor in 2017. He moved to Leiden University in 2019 to establish his independent research group.

Sander is recipient of an ERC starting grant (2018) and of Veni (2014) and Vidi (2018) grants of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). His main research interests are in the areas of anion binding, molecular switches, and self-assembled materials.