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Özlem Keskin

Prof.
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Assoc. Dean for Research and Development, College of Engineering
Director of Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering

Overview

Currently, Prof. Dr. Özlem Keskin Özkaya is a professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering at Koc University, Istanbul-Turkey. She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1999, at Bogazici University. Then, she continued as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute-National Institutes of Health, U.S.A., between 1999− 2001.
She is an elected member of the Science Academy, Turkey and EMBO. She is the recipient of several awards including TÜBİTAK Science Award, 2012, TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World) Encouragement Award, 2009 and UNESCO-L'OREAL Co-Sponsored Fellowship Award for Young Women in Life Sciences, 2005. She acts as an associate editor in Plos Comp Biol, Plos One and Frontiers Bioinformatics and she is in the Editorial Board of Bioinformatics Advances.

Research areas

Drug Design , Protein Dynamics , Bioinformatics , Computational Structural Biology , Protein-Protein Interactions , Computational Systems Biology

Education

1999,

PhD, Boğaziçi University

1995,

MSc, Boğaziçi University

1993,

BS, Boğaziçi University

Awards

2012,

TÜBİTAK Science Award

2009,

TÜBİTAK TWAS Incentive Award

2006,

TÜBA Outstanding Young Scientists Awards