CV
Research experience
- 2025-Presnet: Postdoctoral researcher
- Aquatic Ecology Research Group, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
- Funder: Programa Atracción del Talento (Comunidad de Madrid: 2024-T1/ECO-31557)( 5 year salary + project funding)
- 2022-2024: Postdoctoral researcher
- FEHM-Lab, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- 2019-2022: Postdoctoral researcher
- Biodiversity Research Chair, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
- 2016: Visiting Fellow
- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Biology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
- 2015-2018: Predoctoral Fellow
- Aquatic Ecology Resarch Group, Universitat de Vic, Vic, Spain
- 2014: Visiting Research Student
- Lake Ecology Research Group, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2013-2015: Research and Teaching Assistant
- Limnology Laboratory, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Education
- Ph.D in Experimental Sciences and Technology, Universitat de Vic, Vic, Spain, 2018
- Pedagogical Formation Training in Biology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 2015
- Erasmus Exchange Student, Aarhus University, Denmark, Feb- Jul 2014
- M.Sc. in Limnology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2015
- B.Sc. in Biology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2012
Grants and fellowships
- 2024: Short-Term Scientific Mission grant, EU DRYvER project (400€), in France
- 2023: Grant to attend AIL Intermeeting course (ca. 400€), Granada, Spain
- 2023: Grant to attend DRYvER Training School (ca. 400€), Pécs, Hungary
- 2023: Grant to attend SEFS 2023, Newcastle, UK
- 2016: IGB fellowship+ UVic+ BBVA, mobility grant (11,000€) for 7- month stay at IGB
- 2018: Grant to attend AIL 2018, Coimbra, Portugal
- 2018: 1st place in Spain in the SIL Student Competition, “Best Paper in Limnology”
- 2017: Wetzel Travel Award (225$) to attend SIL 2017, Turin, Italy
- 2015-2018: PhD fellowship (Universitat de Vic, 3 year salary: 48,000€, 2015-2018)
- 2014: ERASMUS funding (800€), Lake Ecology Group, Aarhus Uni, Denmark.
Academic Service and Scientific Societies
- 2022-2025: VP Global Outreach, International Society of Limnology
- 2017-2022: ECR Representative, EFFS (European Federation for Freshwater Scientists)
- 2016- Present: Member, Iberian Association of Limnology
- 2015-Present: Member, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Society of Turkey
