Hakan ÖZKAN - Plenary Speaker on the First International Congress on Biotech Solutions for Sustainability

Hakan ÖZKAN, Professor, ÇUKUROVA UNIVERSITY

Professor Özkan graduated from the Department of Field Crops at Çukurova University Faculty of Agriculture and was appointed as a research assistant in the same department in 1990. He completed his master's degree in 1993. As part of a joint doctoral program between the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and Çukurova University, he completed his PhD in 2000. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona, USA) and the Max Planck Institute (Cologne, Germany). Hakan Özkan, awarded the EMBO short-term fellowship twice, also received the prestigious "Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship" from Germany. In 2004, he received the TUBITAK Young Scientist Award. At the University of Çukurova, Faculty of Agriculture, he was appointed as a Professor in 2009. He has published over 100 original articles in international peer-reviewed journals (Web of Science), which have received over 5000 citations on Web of Science. His research areas include the evolution of cultivated plants, cereal breeding, and using wild genetic resources in plant breeding.