Career

2024 - Present Senior Research Scientist II, Manufacturing Sciences, Takeda Pharmaceuticals Inc., Covington, GA, USA

2021 - 2024 Senior Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), based at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern), Dallas, TX, USA

2019 - 2021 Research Scientist and Project Leader, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany

2017 - 2019    Alexander von Humboldt PostDoctoral Fellowship (AvH), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany

2016 - 2017    Technical University Foundation PostDoctoral Fellowship (TUFF), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

2015 - 2016    Post-Doctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany

2011 - 2015    Research and Teaching Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, GA, USA

Education

2011 - 2015    PhD in Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, GA, USA

2011 - 2013    M.Sc. in Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta,GA, USA

2005 - 2009   B.Sc. in Chemistry, Dokuz Eylul University (DEU), Izmir, Turkey