Dr. Tuğba Öztürk

Dr. Tugba Ozturk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at IŞIK University. She has been a faculty member since 2015 and the Department Head since 2020. She completed a PhD in Physics at Boğaziçi University in 2014 and her undergraduate studies at the Department of Physics and Computer Engineering at IŞIK University in 2004. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen between 2019 and 2020. Her research fields are regional climate modeling, climate extremes, climate variability, and change. Dr. Ozturk is one of the contributing authors of the 1st Mediterranean Assessment Report and the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis).

She is PI on the project “Scalability of projected patterns of extreme weather events over Europe using regional climate model projections” in the TÜBİTAK 3501 Career Development Program framework. She is also a research associate at Boğaziçi University Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies (iklimBU).