Research Scholarship to Our Doctoral Students from TÜBİTAK

Doctoral students from ITU were entitled to receive “TÜBİTAK 2214-A Doctoral Research Fellowship” with the projects they designed based on their theses.

Istanbul Technical University continues to attract attention with the scholarship achievements that enable its graduate students to conduct research abroad in 2024, which it declared as the “Year of Global Impact.” Doctoral students from ITU were entitled to receive TÜBİTAK 2214-A Doctoral Research Fellowship with the projects they designed based on their theses. With this scholarship, our students found the opportunity to conduct research activities in universities around the world.

The formation mechanism of mass movements on Mars

Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Department of Geodynamics doctoral student Deniz Yazıcı’s scholarship project, based on her doctoral thesis supervised by Department of Solid Earth Sciences faculty member Prof. Dr. Tolga Görüm and Prof. Dr. Tolga Güver, has the title “Topographic and Seismic (Marsquake) Origins of Mass Movements in the Cerberus Fossae Region (Mars).” Within the scope of the project focusing on mass movements with unknown formation mechanism in the Cerberus Fossae region on Mars, Yazıcı will conduct scientific studies at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany.

Scientific activities of Hendese-i Mülkiye

Department of History of Science and Technology doctoral student Tuğba Yılmaz was entitled to work as a visiting researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Our student will conduct research in Spain within the scope of the scholarship concerning her doctoral thesis titled “The First Civilian Engineering School of the Ottoman Empire, Hendese-i Mülkiye Mektebi, and Its Science-Engineering Activities” supervised by ITU Department of Humanities and Social Sciences faculty member Prof. Dr. Tuncay Zorlu. This doctoral thesis, which focuses on the Hendese-i Mülkiye Mektebi, the precursor of Istanbul Technical University and an institution that has not been previously studied from the history of science and technology perspective, aims to present a prosopographic study centering on the fields of expertise of a group of engineers who played important roles in the history of Ottoman engineering.

Atmospheric rivers in the Northern Anatolian Mountains

Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Department of Earth System Science doctoral student Harun Aslan was entitled to conduct scientific research in Valparaíso University in Chile as part of his project titled “Investigation of the Role of Atmospheric Rivers and Geomorphic Dynamics on Landslides Triggered by Snow Melt in the Northern Anatolian Mountains” which he developed based on his thesis supervised by Department of Solid Earth Sciences faculty member Prof. Dr. Tolga Görüm.

We congratulate our students and wish them success in their studies.