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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.