Honors and Awards

    *Turkish Academy of Science Distinguished Young Scientists Award, 2002

    *Professor Tarık G. Somer  Academic Achievement Award, METU, 2001

    *The British Council Bursary: UMIST & University of Newcastle upon Tyne, April-May 1998      

    *NATO  Fellowship TUBITAK : (Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey), 1996

 (University  of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)

    *The British Council Bursary, Jan-Feb 1996

 (University of  Manchester  Institute of  Science and Technology  (UMIST)

    *Ph.D. Bursary TUBITAK (Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey), 1994-1998                          

    *M.Sc. Bursary TUBITAK (Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey), 1993 – 1994

    

   Editor

    *Journal of Applied Microbiology   (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing)

   Associate Editor

    *Letters in Applied Microbiology    (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing)

  Associate Editor

      Biotechnology Journal Wiley-Blackwell Publishing)

    Editorial  by Biotech in Turkey Special Issue Guest Editors Hikmet Geçkil & Pınar Çalık

 

Dr. Pınar Çalık is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in METU, Turkey. She is the head of the “Industrial Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering Laboratory”. She has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Microbiology and Letters in Applied Microbiology since 2007, and she was a Guest Editor of the Biotechnology Journal’s special Issue on Biotechnology in Turkey.

She received her Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering from Ankara University in 1998. Between 1998-1999 she was a Lecturer at Ankara University. From 1999-2006 she was Associate Professor at METU and since 2006 she has been working as a Professor in METU. She is a recipient of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientists Award.

Her “Industrial Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering Research Group” is currently researching on production of recombinant biomolecules, i.e., industrial enzymes, and recombinant human proteins, by Bacillus species, E.coli and Pichia pastoris. Her expertise areas are: research on influence of bioreactor operation-parameters on productivity and selectivity, whereupon, on intracellular reaction networks; modeling of intracellular reaction-networks and analyses; metabolic engineering in B. subtilis, and catalyses through metabolic engineering; and site-directed bio-mimetic chemisorption based protein affinity purification.