Michelle Adams, PhD (Psychology and Neuroscience)
2019-2022 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, “Environmental And Genetic Contributions To Inflammation And Its Associated Oxidative Stress During Aging, As Well As Potential Diet And Drug Therapies To Alter Their Course: Possible Regulators Of And Treatments For ‘Oxy-Inflammaging'”.
2021-TBD TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, “Effects Of Varying Cholesterol Levels On Blood Brain Barrier, Cellular And Synaptic Integrity, As Well As Organelle Stress And Inflammation Levels In The Brain, And Possible Benefits Of Inhibition Of The PERK Arm Of The Unfolded Protein Response” (in contract stage).Yasemin Afacan, PhD (Interior Architecture and Neuroscience)
2018-2021 TUBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) Outstanding Young Scientists Award, “Indoor Air Quality and its Cognitive Impacts on Primary School Children”.
2020-2021 Swedish Institute (SI) Funding- Sweden-Turkey Cooperation, “Citylab: Nurturing Knowledge And Learning for Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development”, Assoc. Prof.Dr. Yasemin Afacan as Co-manager along with principal investigator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Johanna Alkan Olsson, Lund University.
TÜBİTAK 2236 – Co-Funded Brain Circulation Scheme (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska -Curie grant agreement Nº 801509), “Human thermal comfort thresholds within indoor and outdoor environments – Facing rising heat levels in an era of climate change, the case of Ankara, Turkey”. Project Coordinator – Asst. Prof. Dr. Andre Santos Nouri; Host Institutions (x2): Y. Afacan, Bilkent University – Prof. Dr. Andreas Matzarakis University of Freiburg), International Project Collaborators (x4): Prof. Dr. Sorin Cheval (University of Bucharest), Prof. Dr. Tzu-Ping Lin (National Cheng Kung University), Prof. Dr. Andreas Christen (University of Freiburg), Prof. Dr. Onur Çalışkan (Ankara University)
Hüseyin Boyacı, PhD (Psychology and Neuroscience)
2017-2021 European Union The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action – Innovative Training Network (MSCA-ITN/ETN) Grant, “DyViTo: Dynamics in Vision and Touch – the look and feel of stuff”. Collaborator PI in Bilkent University.2018-2021 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, “Behavioral and neural investigation of predictive processing in visual perception”. PI. (grant number: 217K163)
2020-2023 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, “Neuronal Basis of Perceptual Learning”. PI. (grant number: 119K369)
2021-2023 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, “Center-surround interaction in motion perception”. PI. (grant number: 120K956)
Ausaf Farooqui, PhD (Psychology and Neuroscience)
2021-2023 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, “Rethinking How Control Is Instantiated By Fronto-Parietal Regions”. (grant number: 120K924).
Hulusi Kafalıgönül, PhD (UMRAM and Neuroscience)
2020-2023 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, “Functional Roles of Inter- and Intra-pathway Interactions in Visual Perception”.2020-2022 TÜBA-GEBİP (The Turkish Academy of Sciences), “The Roles of Associative Learning and Attention in Crossmodal Interactions”.
Özlen Konu, PhD (MBG and Neuroscience)
2020-2022 TUSEB Systems Biology Call: “Effects of interaction between drospirenone and mineralocorticoid-aldosterone signaling pathway on the breast cancer nucleome”.2021-2023 TUSEB Novel Drug Development call: “Investigation of genotype-drug interactions in the zebrafish model”.
2020-2023 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant: “Interaction of TP53-MYC with CHRNA5 in isogenic breast cancer cells with functional and trascriptomics approaches”.
Burcu Ayşen Ürgen, PhD (Psychology and Neuroscience )
2019-2022 TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 3501 Grant, “Behavioral and neural investigation of perception of biological motion and actions in humans”.2021-TBD TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, “How do we perceive social robots? Inter-generational and inter-individual differences in mind attribution to social robots”. (in contract stage).