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Horizon Europe European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant will support our Textile Technologies and Design Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Atalay’s project titled “TEXWEAROTS”.

According to the latest list of the world's most influential scientists, created annually by scientists from Stanford University, was recently published by Elsevier, 50 academicians from ITU were included. Assoc. Dr. Özgür Atalay is also involved in the list. We congratulate him on his outstanding achievement.

In the Biotechnology and Innovation Competition conducted by Teknofest, the TexRobots Team (Kadir Özlem, Ayşe Feyza Yılmaz, Fidan Khalilbayli, Ömür Fatmanur Erzurumluoğlu) won the first prize with their “Texrobot for Hand Paralysis Rehabilitation” project.

The SofTex Team (Uğur Ayvaz, Kadir Özlem, Ayşe Feyza Yılmaz, Ali Emre Öztaş) won the third place in the Communication Technologies Competition of Teknofest with their project "Real Time Activity and Heart Rate Detection Using Textile-Based Sensors".

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ozgur Atalay has been awarded by TUBITAK 2247-A "National Leader Researchers Program".

Omur Fatmanur Erzurumluoglu and Ali Emre Oztas have been awarded by Trainee Researcher Scholarship Program (STAR) initiated by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

According to the article titled "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" published in PLOS Biology by Dr. John PA Ioannidis, K. W. Boyack and J. Baas from Stanford University, 45 academicians from ITU ranked among the top 2% scientists in the world. Assoc. Dr. Özgür Atalay is also involved in the list. We congratulate him on his outstanding achievement.