HONORS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

• TÜBA GEBİP Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2012, the Turkish Academy of Sciences.


• Research Incentive Award 2012, METU Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education & Research Foundation.


• Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF) MRSEC Program through the University of Washington Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center (DMR 0520567).


• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Army Research Office (ARO) DURINT program through the University of Washington (DAAD19-01-1-04999).


• TCBG Computational Biophysics Workshop (20/107 applicants selected). An NIH-sponsored Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Chicago, IL, USA, June 9-13, 2005.


• TUBITAK-NATO-A2 Research Grant (to visit Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, GERMANY, 2001).


• Fulbright Conference Travel Grant (MRS 2001 Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA).


• The Best Thesis Award 2000, Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education & Research Foundation, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, TURKEY.