Education

• Doctorate study on “Seasonal and spatial distribution of the methanogens and sulfate reducing bacteria in anaerobic sediments of Rotsee, Lake Cadagno and Danube Delta” at EAWAG/Natural Science Department at ETH, Switzerland.
• Master study on “Adaptation of blue green algae to environmental phosphate fluctuations” at Institute of Limnology, Mondsee, Austria and at Department of Biology, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
• Undergraduate study at Department of Biology, METU, Ankara, Turkey; including 1 year-preparatory school for English language and 3 months-practical summer project in TUBITAK research center.
• Erciyes Uni. High School of Health, Kayseri.

Professional experiences

• Postdoctoral work about estuarine ecology at Department of Biotechnology, Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands.
• Teaching and research assistant at the Department of  Environmental Science/ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Research assistant in a project about the effect of the light and phosphate fluctuations on algal communities at Limnology Group, EAWAG/ETH, Switzerland.
• Research assistant in a project about the CO2 gas exchange of symbiotic algae derived from lichens, under supervision of Prof. Roman Turk, at Ins. of Plant Physiology, Uni. of Salzburg, Austria.
• Research assistant in a short term project about chl a fluorescence in algae with Prof. Ali Gokmen at Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
  

Scholarships, Courses and Workshops

• Env. Monitoring and Modelling course, IHE-UNESCO, Delft, NL
• Microbial Ecology Course, Graduate School Functional Ecology, Wageningen, NL
• GeoBiology Summer Class, USC Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies, Catalina Island, California, sponsored by the Agouron Institute, USA.
• Sediments and Biofilms Workshop– In situ Approach to Limnic System Analysis, EAWAG, Switzerland.
  

Publications

• Wagner, F., Sahan, E. and Falkner, G. (1997). The complex relation between phosphate uptake and photosynthetic CO2 fixation in the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans. Proceedings of the IX. International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Vienna.

• Wagner, F., Sahan, E. and Falkner, G. (2000). The establisment of coherent phosphate uptake behaviour by the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans. European Journal of Phycology, 35: 243-253.
  
• Beardall, J., Berman, T., Heraud, P., Kadiri, M., Light, B., Patterson, G., Roberts, S., Sulzberger, B., Sahan, E., Uehlinger, U., Wood, B. (2001). A comparison of methods for detection of phosphate limitation in microalgae. Aquatic Sci., 63 (1): 107-121.
  
• Sahan, E., Zogg, A., Mason, S.A., Gilli, A. (2001) Sustaianable management of international rivers: case study: Southeastern Anatolia project in Turkey  (http://www.eawag.ch/research_e/apec/Scripts/GAP07feb01.pdf)

Conferences/ Abstracts

• Sahan, E., Wagner, F. and Falkner, G. (1997) CO2 fixation by the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans is regulated by population dependent, adaptive responses of the cells to changes in the external phosphate concentration. Abstract- poster presentation at the IX. International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Vienna, Austria.

• Sahan, E., Dinkel, C., Friedl, G., Friedrich, J., Nyundu, K., Wehrli, B., Zepp, K. (2001) Spatial distribution of the methanogens and sulfate-reducing bacteria in the anaerobic sediments of Danube Delta. Abstract- talk at the Goldschmidt Conference, Virginia, USA
• Zepp, K., Sahan, E., Bottinelli, M., Vazquez, F., Tonolla, M., Peduzzi, R., Wehrli, B. (2002) TGGE and chemical analyses help to elucidate the spatial dynamic of methanogens and sulfate-reducing bacteria in anaerobic sediment of Lago di Cadagno and Rotsee, Switzerland. Abstract- talk at 60th Annual Assembly of SSM, Lucerne, Switzerland.
  
• Sahan, E., Dinkel, C., Friedl, G., Friedrich, J., Nyundu, K., Wehrli, B., Zepp, K (2003). In Situ Analysis of Methanogens and Sulfate-reducing Bacteria in Anaerobic Sediments of the Danube Delta. Talk at the symposium of Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea: Similarities and Differences of Two Interconnected Basins (14th 18th October) Ankara, Turkey
  
• Sahan, E., Hernadez, G., and Muyzer, G. (August 2004). Diversity of microphytobenthos along the salinity gradient in Westerschelde estuary. Abstract- poster presentation at the 18th International Diatom symposium, Szcezin, Poland
  
• Sahan, E., Hernadez, G., Creach, V., Sabbe, K., Stal, L. and Muyzer, G. (August 2005).  Diversity of microphytobenthos along the salinity gradient in Westerschelde estuary. Abstract- poster presentation at the 18th Gordon conference-Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Coonecticut, USA.

Languages

Turkish: native speaker
English: very good
German: good (German courses- advanced level)
Dutch: good (Dutch courses-Mondrian Language School-level 4)