Current Position: 

• 10/2022 - current: Assistant Professor (tenured since 10/2023), Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands. 

Previous Positions:

• 10/2021 - 09/2022 : Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

  • 01/2022 - 06/2022: Academic visitor (6 months), Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom.  

• 10/2019 - 09/2021 : CNRS Postdoctoral researcher, Camille Jordan Institute, Claude Bernard University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France.

Education:

• 10/2015 - 10/2019 : Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Granada, Spain and Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain.

  • Joint doctoral program between University of Granada, University of Cádiz, University of Málaga, University of Almería and University of Jaen.

  • 05/2019 - 08/2019 : Research visit (3,5 months), Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany. 

  • 01/2019 - 03/2019 : Research visit (3 months), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

• 09/2013 - 09/2015 : M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics - Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications, Erasmus Mundus MathMods Master's Programme,

  •  Joint master's degree from University of L'Aquila, University of Hamburg and Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

  • 05/2015 - 06/2015 : Research stay, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.

• 09/2013 - 09/2015 : M.Sc. in Mathematical Engineering, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy. 

• 10/2008 - 06/2013 : B.Sc. in Mathematics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. 

  • 10/2011 - 08/2012: Student Exchange Program, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Other Academic Research Visits: 

• • 12/2023 (two weeks) : University of Granada, Spain. (hosted by José A. Cañizo)

  • 03/2023  - 04/2023 (two weeks) : University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. (hosted by Sara Merino-Aceituno)

  • 11/2022 - 12/2022 : Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria. 

Invited participant of the thematic programme: Mathematical Methods for the Study of Self-organization in the Biological Sciences

Selected Grants, Fellowships and Prizes:

• Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program Fellowship from the OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), Okinawa, Japan Duration: August 2024 - November 2024

• Veni 2022 grant ENW Science Domain from the NWO (Dutch Research Council), The Netherlands Duration: February 2024 - February 2027

• Fellowship from the ESI (Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics), Vienna, Austria to attend the thematic programme "Mathematical Methods for the Study of Self-Organization in the Biological Sciences" Duration: November 2022

• Delft Technology Fellowship by the Delft University of Technology Duration: October 2022 - October 2027

• Fellowship from the INI (Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences), Cambridge, UK to attend the special programme "KineCon 2022" Duration: January 2022 - June 2022

• APART-MINT Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (declined). 

• Fellowship from the HIM (Hausdorff Research Institute of Mathematics), Bonn, Germany to attend the Junior Trimester Prgram "Kinetic Theory" Duration: May 2019 - August 2019

• International PhD Fellowship from the "la Caixa" Foundation Duration: October 2015 - October 2019

• Merit-based graduate scholarship from the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy Duration: January 2014 - November 2015

• Erasmus Mundus Category B Scholarship for the Erasmus Mundus Master programme AstroMundus (declined). 

• Merit-based udergraduate scholarship from TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Duration: October 2007 - August 2012

• Scholarship for Student Exchange Program by JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) Duration: October 2011 - August 2012