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)