MSCA@KU – MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Webinar, Proposal Development & Hosting Offers at Koç University

07/06/2022

WHEN: 8 June 2022 @13:00-16:00 (Istanbul, Turkey time)

WHERE: Zoom Webinar, please register at https://kocun.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rtPyCRI7RHW3Vk0Kr9L01w

Koç University Sponsored Research Office (SRO) invites postdoctoral researchers from all around the world to consider developing a proposal for the upcoming MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 call (deadline: 14.9.2022). We will be broadcasting a webinar to talk about how to prepare for the call and how SRO supports candidates for the PF application. Short introductions of various research teams at Koç University offering hosting to potential MSCA-PF applicants will follow. The event will be recorded and shared online for posterity.

If you are looking for a supervisor to support your MSCA-PF-2022 application at Koç University, please reach us at sro@ku.edu.tr and we will try to match you with interested researchers.

Also check our info page here, which includes a number of active hosting announcements published at EURAXESS.

Agenda:

13:00-13:10  Sponsored Research Office (SRO) welcome and a short introduction of Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey)

13:10-14:00  How to Survive a MSCA-PF Application? – Brief SRO presentation on the scheme and how the office supports candidates. Career development opportunities at the university in general will also be discussed. Q&A will follow.

14:00-16:00   Hosting Offers by Koç University Research Units – Laboratories, research groups, centers and project teams at the university will present their topics for possible PF collaborations (which SRO will help match with candidates) and introduce their research infrastructures.

We will hold three parallel sessions to accommodate around 30 separate research groups willing to host and supervise researchers:

Tentative list of teams inviting postdoctoral researchers to work on an MSCA-PF proposal (please contact sro@ku.edu.tr to get in touch with PIs):

Parallel Session 1: Artificial Intelligence Center and research groups

Zoom link: https://kocun.zoom.us/j/96422824768 Passcode: 580487

Time slot Team name Contact Point (for hosting inquiries)
14:00-14:10 Artificial Intelligence Center introduction Çiğdem Gündüz Demir, CGUNDUZ@ku.edu.tr
14:10-14:20 Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory Çağatay Başdoğan, CBASDOGAN@ku.edu.tr
14:20-14:30 Prof. Gunduz Demir’s Group Çiğdem Gündüz Demir, CGUNDUZ@ku.edu.tr
14:30-14:40 Intelligent User Interfaces Lab Metin Sezgin, MTSEZGIN@ku.edu.tr
14:40-14:50 Image/Video Restoration and Compression Murat Tekalp, MTEKALP@ku.edu.tr
14:50:15:00 Distributed Systems and Reliable Networks Lab Öznur Özkasap, OOZKASAP@ku.edu.tr

Parallel Session 2: Other Engineering Sciences research groups

Zoom link: https://kocun.zoom.us/s/98717375735 Passcode: 470749

Time slot Team name Contact Point (for hosting inquiries)
14:00-14:10 Nanofabrication and Nanocharacterization Center Burak Birkan, BBIRKAN@ku.edu.tr
14:10-14:20 Bio-integrated Microdevices Lab Levent Beker, lbeker@ku.edu.tr
14:20-14:30 Biofluids and Cardiovascular Mechanics Laboratory Kerem Pekkan, kpekkan@ku.edu.tr
14:30-14:40 Systems Lab Metin Türkay, mturkay@ku.edu.tr
14:40-14:50 Mechanical Characterization Laboratory Erdem Alaca, ealaca@ku.edu.tr
14:50-15:00 Quantum Enabling System Technologies Team Özgür Müstecaplıoğlu, omustecap@ku.edu.tr
15:00-15:10 Ünal Lab (Structure-Property Relations of 2D-layered Materials) Uğur Ünal, ugunal@ku.edu.tr
15:10-15:20 Boron and Advanced Materials Application and Research Center Umut Aydemir, uaydemir@ku.edu.tr
15:20-15:30 Advanced Materials Group Demircan Canadinç, dcanadinc@ku.edu.tr
15:30-15:40 Computational and Systems Biology Group Özlem Keskin, okeskin@ku.edu.tr
15:40-15:45 Surface Polymer and Physical Chemistry Lab Levent Demirel, LDEMIREL@ku.edu.tr
15:45-15:50 Wireless Networks Lab Sinem Çöleri, SCOLERI@ku.edu.tr
15:50-15:55 Nanomaterials, Energy, Molecular Modelling Group Seda Keskin, skeskin@ku.edu.tr

Parallel Session 3: Life Sciences and Social Sciences research groups

Zoom link: https://kocun.zoom.us/j/98033723440 Passcode: 685622

Time slot Team name Contact Point (for hosting inquiries)
14:00-14:10 Cell cycle and genome instability lab Ayşe Koca Çaydaşı, aykoca@ku.edu.tr
14:20-14:30 Cytoskeleton Research Laboratory Elif Nur Fırat Karalar, ekaralar@ku.edu.tr
14:30-14:40 Plant Research Laboratory Onur Öztaş, ONOZTAS@ku.edu.tr
14:40-14:50 Metabolism and Cancer Research Laboratory Serkan Kır, SKIR@KU.EDU.TR
14:50-15:00 Stem Cell Lab Tamer Önder, tonder@ku.edu.tr
15:00-15:10 Brain Cancer Research and Therapy Lab Tuğba Bağcı Önder, tuonder@ku.edu.tr
15:10-15:20 Cancer Systems Pharmacology Lab Gülnihal Özcan, guozcan@ku.edu.tr
15:20-15:30 Koç University Center of Asian Studies Burak Gürel, bgurel@ku.edu.tr
15:30-15:35 Center for Research on Globalization, Peace, and Democratic Governance Caner Bakır, CBAKIR@ku.edu.tr
15:35-15:40 Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, FYENISEHIRLIOGLU@ku.edu.tr
15:40-15:45 Language and Cognition Lab Tilbe Göksun, tgoksun@ku.edu.tr
15:45-15:50 Independent Evaluation Laboratory Yasemin Kisbu, YKISBU@ku.edu.tr
15:50-15:55 Study Group on Migration and Education Çetin Çelik, ccelik@ku.edu.tr
15:55-16:00 Cell Biology and Proteomics Lab Nurhan Özlü, nozlu@ku.edu.tr
16:00-16:05 Center for Infectious Diseases Pınar Yazıcı Yaman, PYAMAN@ku.edu.tr