Canan Atilgan - Curriculum Vitae#
Education:
- 1991 - 1996 MS & Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 1987 - 1991 BS in Chemical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey
Publications: 86 manuscripts published in archival journals.
Websites, publications links:
http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/canan - self
https://midst.sabanciuniv.edu - group
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zNWIaswAAAAJ
Editorial board member: Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics
Reviewer and panel duties:
- The Scientific and Technical Council of Turkey (TUBITAK; regular)
- L’Oréal Turkey Young Women Scientist Fellowships
- FP7, H2020 and HORIZON Europe
- Sedat Simavi Awards Basic Sciences Evaluation Committee
- PRACE
- La Caixa Foundation Fellowship Programs
Theses supervised. 15 PhD (10 women; 9 completed, 6 ongoing); 17 MS students (7 women; 16 completed, 1 ongoing)
Educational leadership and outreach activities:
Transforming undergraduate education - Contributes to the reflection of the new learning patterns to the teaching of science at the University level.
Popularizing science for native speakers - Editorial board member and regular contributor for the Turkish language popular science web site https://sarkac.org.
Dissemination of computational biophysics - Organizes ‘Dialogues in the MIDST’ Workshops geared mainly towards graduate students residing in or near Istanbul (https://midst.sabanciuniv.edu/dialogues.html). Regularly gives introductory level biophysics seminars to undergraduate student clubs throughout Turkey. Biophysical Society Ambassador for Turkey (2021-2024 term)