INTERNATIONAL LINKS

July- August 1994

 Visiting Scientist, Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK

March 1995-1997

 Principal Investigator of the British Council Academic Link Programme
 Project Title: Seismological Investigations in Turkey (March 1995 - March 1997)
 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (Tuncay Taymaz)
 University of Cambridge, UK (Keith Priestley)
 PhD completed by Dr. Paul Saunders (December 1996)
 Thesis Title: The Lithospheric Structure of Western Turkey: Crustal Deformation in an Extending Region

15 December 1996
15 January 1997

 Ocean Drilling Programme (USA-NSF-Texas A&M University-ESF-TÜBİTAK)
 LEG171A-Physical Properties Specialist (15 December 1996-15 January 1997)
 Barbados Accretionary Prism Logging While Drilling Experiment on Caribbean and North American Plates
 Boundary

Summer of
1995, 1996, 1997

 Visiting Scientist, Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK

August 1997

 Visiting Scientist, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

July 1998- August 1999

 Visiting Professor, funded by Alexander von Humboldt -Stiftung (AvH) Research Fellowship Programme
 Albert Einstein Science Park,  GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, Germany 

June-September 2002

 Visiting Professor, funded by Graduate School of Hokkaido University, Sapporo - Japan
 Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (ISV)

August-September 2003
August 2004

 Visiting Scientist, funded by CNRS-EGIDE-PIA-TÜBİTAK
 Experimental Seismology, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

August 2004

 Visiting Scientist, funded by CNRS-EGIDE-PIA-TÜBİTAK
L'Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer: Observatoire Océanologique, Villefranche - France

July 2006

 Visiting Professor, funded by Alexander von Humboldt -Stiftung (AvH) Research Fellowship Programme
 Albert Einstein Science Park, GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ,) Potsdam, Germany

August-September 2006

 Visiting Professor, funded by Alexander von Humboldt -Stiftung (AvH) Research Fellowship Programme
 Institute of Geology, Mineralogy, and Geophysics, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Germany.

November 2012

 Visiting Professor, funded by University of Tsukuba, College of Geoscience, School of Life and
 Environmental Sciences, Doctoral Program in Earth Evolution Sciences
, November 2012, Tsukuba, Japan

June - September 2014

 Visiting Professor, funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) Research Fellowship Programme
 Research Professorship, Freie Universitaet, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences,
 Lankwitz, Berlin, Germany.

February 2016

 Visiting Professor, funded by Research Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology (IEVG), Geological
 Survey of Japan,
AIST, Tsukuba, Japan.

March - May 2017

 Visiting Professor, funded by IPGP Visiting Professor Fellowship Programme

 Research Professorship, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Department of Seismology, France.