Hacettepe Awards

The main purpose of the Hacettepe Awards, which started to be presented with the Hacettepe University Award Directive, which was accepted with the decision number 92-9 in the session of the Hacettepe University Senate on January 8, 1992; to support the scientific studies of researchers from any university, to share their superior qualities and achievements with the society, to respect the achievements or works they have performed in the name of serving the society throughout their lives.

Hacettepe Awards are the name of Hacettepe University’s loyalty to society, which is the reason for its existence, and its effort for humanity. Hacettepe University is science, culture, tradition, art. The guarantee for this country to achieve its goals is to add value to the world…

Always for society, humanity and the world
To The Leading Edge… Toward Being the Best…

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Simsek & Dr. Inst. Member Şengül İnce

2021 Community Service Award

For their outstanding work on immigration and social cohesion.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Simsek & Dr. Inst. Member Şengül İnce

Prof. Dr. Süleyman Sadi Seferoğlu

2021 Contribution To Education Award

For his outstanding work on the effective use of digital technologies in education.

Prof. Dr. Süleyman Sadi Seferoğlu

Prof. Dr. Ömrüm Uzun

2021 Science Award
In Medicine and Health Sciences

For his scientific contributions to the appropriate use of antibiotics and the prevention of antibiotic resistance.

Prof. Dr. Ömrüm Uzun

Prof. Dr. Emine Yılmaz

2021 Science Encouragement Award
in Social Sciences and Humanities

For her promising scientific studies in the field of Contemporary Turkish Dialects.

Prof. Dr. Emine Yılmaz

Dr. Inst. Neslihan Taş

2021 Science Encouragement Award
in Science and Engineering

For her promising scientific work on redesigning food to be of higher quality and safety.

Dr. Inst. Neslihan Taş

Dr. Inst. Yeşeren Saylan

2021 Science Encouragement Award
in Science and Engineering

For her promising scientific work on molecularly imprinted polymers and portable sensors for sensitive health and environmental safety applications

Dr. Inst. Yeşeren Saylan

Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlkay Sedakat İdilman

2021 Science Encouragement Award
In Medicine and Health Sciences

For her promising scientific work on hepatic imaging with MRI.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlkay Sedakat İdilman

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nagehan Emiralioğlu

2021 Science Encouragement Award
In Medicine and Health Sciences

For her promising scientific work on childhood interstitial lung diseases, primary ciliary dyskinesia and cystic fibrosis.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nagehan Emiralioğlu

Res. Assist. Dr. Tuba Merdeşe

2021 Art Award

For her promising artistic works in the field of sculpture.

Res. Assist. Dr. Tuba Merdeşe

Prof. Dr. Canan Özgen

2020 Distinctive Hacettepe Title

For donating some works of art belonging to Prof. Dr. Tunçalp Özgen, who is one of the former rectors of Hacettepe University, to the Hacettepe Art Museum.

Prof. Dr. Canan Özgen

Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal

2020 Community Service Award

For his contribution to Turkey’s scientific and technological development, with his outstanding performance in the TÜBİTAK Presidency he has undertaken since 2018.

Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal

Hacettepe University Hospitals

2020 Community Service Award

Due to the health services provided by all employees with high devotion in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hacettepe University Hospitals

Prof. Dr. Turgay Dalkara

2020 Contribution To Education Award

For his contributions to the creation and development of neuroscience doctorate, doctor of medicine/science (MD-PhD) and neuroscience and neurotechnology programs in our country.

Prof. Dr. Turgay Dalkara

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Serdar Köksal

2020 Science Award
in Social Sciences and Humanities

For his work on illustrating how to teach gifted students the nature of science.

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Serdar Köksal

Prof. Dr. Sevtap Arıkan Akdağlı

2020 Science Award
In Medicine and Health Sciences

For her efforts to popularize the routine application of antifungal susceptibility testing.

Prof. Dr. Sevtap Arıkan Akdağlı

Assoc. Prof. Hüseyin Özçelik

2020 Art Award

In the field of ceramic art, especially for its unique applications for wall ceramics.

Assoc. Prof. Hüseyin Özçelik

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman

2020 Scientific Incentive Award
In Social Sciences and Humanities

For his promising work in speech analysis with microanalysis techniques.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bengi Özgün Öztürk

2020 Scientific Incentive Award
In Science and Engineering

For his promising work on renewable resources and self-healing materials.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bengi Özgün Öztürk

Dr. Lect. Merve Gültekinoğlu Bayram

2020 Scientific Incentive Award
In Medicine and Health Science

For her promising work in antibacterial surface coatings and microfluidics.

Dr. Lect. Merve Gültekinoğlu Bayram

Prof. Dr. Murat Akova

2019 Science Award
In Health Sciences

Due to his international cooperation in the field of infectious diseases, especially on antimicrobial resistance and febrile neutropenia, his uninterrupted contribution to national and international science, his representation of Hacettepe University and Turkey at the highest management levels in the leading associations of his field, and his role as an example in the training of our country’s physicians.

Prof. Dr. Murat Akova

Prof. Dr. Ebru Sezer

2019 Science Award
In Science and Engineering

Due to the high scientific quality of his publications and the importance he attaches to interdisciplinary collaboration in his studies, with the aim of increasing the applicability of machine learning approaches to real world problems, to develop end-to-end solutions for industrial applications containing real data and problems.

Prof. Dr. Ebru Sezer

Prof. Dr. Kubilay Aktulum

2020 Science Award
in Social Sciences

The subject of linguistics and intercultural relations and interaction, semiotics and intertextual relations in conceptual and theoretical definitions, for his interdisciplinary studies and qualified scientific publications.

Prof. Dr. Kubilay Aktulum

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miyase Gözde Gündüz

2019 Scientific Incentive Award
In Health Sciences

For her work with strong international collaborations in detecting the interactions between compounds synthesized using molecular modeling methods and their targets, and establishing a relationship between chemical structure and activity, especially on compounds that act on calcium channels.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miyase Gözde Gündüz

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tolga Yıldırım

2019 Scientific Incentive Award
In Health Sciences

For his important scientific contributions to the field of Nephrology through his work on approaches to improve the short- and long-term prognosis of kidney transplant recipients and donors.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tolga Yıldırım

Dr. Lect. Ekim Taşkıran

2019 Scientific Incentive Award
In Health Sciences

For his scientific contributions to the detection of new genes in hereditary diseases, establishment of genotype-phenotype correlation, implementation of next-generation sequencing methods and clinical service with bioinformatic analysis, and determination of transcriptomic signatures.

Dr. Lect. Ekim Taşkıran

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tunca Doğan

2019 Scientific Incentive Award
In Science and Engineering

For his work in international cooperation on adapting artificial intelligence approaches to the biomedical field and developing computational methods that work for drug discovery and repositioning to develop computational methods and applications to explain complex molecular processes in living things, and to develop new potential treatment options.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tunca Doğan

Dr. Lect. Çiğdem Kip

2019 Scientific Incentive Award
In Science and Engineering

For her scientific contributions to the field of development of bioaffinity chromatography-based kits for the isolation and classification of valuable biomolecules such as DNA and RNA from biological samples.

Dr. Lect. Çiğdem Kip

Dr. Lect. Tolgahan Kocadağlı

2019 Scientific Incentive Award
In Science and Engineering

For his studies in the field of Food Chemistry, especially on the Maillard reaction, aroma and acrylamide formation, and his ongoing studies on the research of low molecular mass food ingredients formed due to formulation during food processing.

Dr. Lect. Tolgahan Kocadağlı

Res. Assist. Dr. Alper Kumcu

2019 Scientific Incentive Award
In Social Sciences

For his scientific publications and internationally accepted studies on eye tracking methods, language memory, memory effect in the light of psychological and cognitive dynamics in his work in the field of eye tracking in the field of translation.

Res. Assist. Dr. Alper Kumcu

Dr. Lect. Tansel Çeber

2019 Artistic Incentive Award

Due to his national and international studies in the field of sculpture, his search for new methods and languages ​​in his works and setting an example for students who receive art education.

Dr. Lect. Tansel Çeber

Res. Assist. Ayşe Dağıstanlı Parlar

2019 Artistic Incentive Award

She achieved this success at a young age as a research assistant at our Conservatory in the field of opera directorship, which has no training in Turkey, and is an example to Conservatory students and young academics.

Res. Assist. Ayşe Dağıstanlı Parlar

Prof. Dr. Arif Altun

2019 Contribution to Education Award

Thanks to the experience and knowledge of the Distance Education Application and Research Center (HUZEM), the contributions of the Registrar’s Office and the infrastructure support of the Information Technologies Department, for their extraordinary efforts and devoted efforts to run the distance education process as smoothly as possible.

Prof. Dr. Arif Altun

Prof. Dr. Ümran Uygun

2019 Contribution to Education Award

Thanks to the experience and knowledge of the Distance Education Application and Research Center (HUZEM), the contributions of the Registrar’s Office and the infrastructure support of the Information Technologies Department, for their extraordinary efforts and devoted efforts to run the distance education process as smoothly as possible.

Prof. Dr. Ümran Uygun

Prof. Dr. Atilla Yılmaz

2019 Contribution to Education Award

Thanks to the experience and knowledge of the Distance Education Application and Research Center (HUZEM), the contributions of the Registrar’s Office and the infrastructure support of the Information Technologies Department, for their extraordinary efforts and devoted efforts to run the distance education process as smoothly as possible.

Prof. Dr. Atilla Yılmaz

Institute of Population Studies

2020 Community Service Award

Due to the fact that they carried out the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which contributed significantly to Turkish social science in terms of findings, data and analysis, and the effort they have given to this research series since 1968 and their continuation of this accumulation.

Institute of Population Studies