Meryem Beklioglu

Associate Professor, PhD
Biology Department
Middle East Technical University
06531 Ankara, TURKEY

Tel: +90(312)210-5154
Fax: +90(312)210-1289
E-mail: meryem@metu.edu.tr


Date of birth: 01.11.1966
Nationality: Turkish
Marital status: Married
Language skill: fluent English

Higher Education

PhD in Freshwater Ecology, 1991-1995
Title: Whole Lake and Mesocosm studies on the Role of Nutrients and Zooplankton Grazing in a system of Shallow and Deep lakes
  Environmental and Evolutionary Biology Department, the University of Liverpool, UK.
Supervisor: Professor Brian Moss
MSc. in Population Genetics, 1989-1991
Title: Determination of morphometric variation within and among six species of Tsetse fly, Glossina by multivariate statistical analyses
  Institute of Science, Department of Biology, METU, Ankara.
BSc. in Biology, 1983-1988
  METU, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Biology, Ankara

Work Experience

Nov. 2000- Associate Professor, Biology Department, METU, Ankara, Turkey
1996-2000 Assistant Professor, Biology Department, METU, Ankara, Turkey
1989-1995 Research Assistant, Teaching and demonstration in the Genetics and General Biology Laboratories, Biology Department, METU, Ankara, Turkey
1988-1989 Worked for the preparation of "Wetlands of Turkey" book, at the Environmental Problems Foundation of Turkey.

Fellowships

Oct-Nov, 1999 The British Council, the Visits and Exchanges the Visits and Exchanges Programme Grant, Environmental Research Centre, University College London, UK
Jun-Oct, 1997 Post-doctoral Research Grant given by the Ministry of Environmental and Energy, National Environmental Research Institute in the Department of Lake and Estuarine Ecology, Silkeborg, Denmark
Jun-Oct, 1996 Post-doctoral Research Grants given by TÜBİTAK/Royal Society and he British Council, Ankara at the University of Liverpool, the UK.
1991-1995 PhD scholarship of the Higher Education Council of Turkey, The University of Liverpool, UK

Awards

Sep 2000 TUBİTAK, YDBÇAG, Projects Copy Right award given to the project entitled Design of a fast dependable fish stock determination method based on kairomones relased from fish, M. Beklioğlu (Principal investigator), A. Ozan, F. Severcan.
TUBİTAK- YDABÇAG-100Y035 (project butget: 12.6 Billion TL, award: 7 Billion TL, 1.9.2000-30.9.2003)
Jun 1999 The Thesis of the Year Award of the Prof.Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation, Middle East Technical University, given to the thesis entitled Pelagic Trophic Interactions: Clear versus Turbid water states in Lake Mogan and Lake Eymir completed in October 1998 under my supervision.

Meeting Organisation

Nov 2001 Organization of an International Workshop on,
"Shallow Lake Wetlands: Ecology, Eutrophication, and Restoration" METU, Ankara, Turkey
(Lecturers: Professor Brian Moss, the UK; Professor Erik Jeppesen, Denmark; Dr. Hugo Coops, the Netherlands; Dr. Paul Boers, the Netherlands; Dr. Meryem Beklioglu, Turkey) with 200 participants

© 2001 Meryem Beklioglu