Izmir Ekonomi Universitesi

Izmir University of Economics (IUE) was established in 2001 by “Izmir Chamber of Commerce Education and Health Foundation”.  Izmir University of Economics was established officially with 2 faculties including Faculty of Medicine, 5 schools, and 2 graduate schools pursuant to Law No. 4633 published in Official Gazette No. 24373 and dated April 14, 2001. Starting its education journey with 288 students, Izmir University of Economics, which carries the status of being the first foundation university of the Aegean Region, became one of the most preferred universities across the nation and produced 16 thousand 200 graduates so far. Total of 496 academics, 59 of whom are foreign nationals, and 204 administrative staff work at IEU, which has almost 10 thousand students. Izmir University of Economics, which offers 28 associate degree programs, 35 undergraduate programs, 30 masters programs, and 6 PhD programs, continues to take firm steps towards its progress.

Izmir University of Economics is the first, and most preferred, foundation university in Izmir and Aegean Region. Innovation and entrepreneurship are among the key values of the institution, which is reinforced by the TUSIAD (Turkish Industry & Business Association) Entrepreneurship Flag. The Logistics management department is the first undergraduate program related to logistics and supply chain areas in Turkey, with experienced academic staff from interdisciplinary areas including business administration and industrial engineering. Collaboration with the industry is the priority of the logistics management department, with student projects managed in coordination with more than one hundred companies from several industries since 2008.

Izmir University of Economics has various research centers and technical infrastructure in line with the importance it attaches to science and research-based technology transfer.

Izmir University of Economics has 11 research centers such as European Union Research and Application Center, Teaching and Learning Center, IEU-KREA Creative Economy Research Center, The Center for Innovative Entrepreneurship, EKOSEM, Psychology Research and Application Center. (https://www.ieu.edu.tr/en/arastirma-merkezleri). There are 14 research laboratories at TESLA (Technology Engineering and Science Laboratory) Building in which there are various related machines and equipments. Research Laboratories are as follows; Cloud and Advanced Simulation Room, Robotics and Mechanics Laboratory, Industry 4.0 Laboratory, Computer Games Design Laboratory, Computer Laboratory, Molecular Research Laboratory, Cell and Tissue Culture Laboratory, Biotechnology Laboratory, Biomedical Laboratory, Electric and Electronics Laboratory, Nanotechnology Laboratory, Aerospace Laboratory, Construction Laboratory, Aerospace Laboratory. Furthermore, other studios and laboratories are such as D. Makerlab, Media Laboratory, Young Creative Communication Agency, Radio Laboratory, Cinema and Digital Media Laboratory.  The technical infrastructure of İzmir University of Economics includes almost 175 items and possible related items are such as CISCO UCS C220 M5 SFR SERVER Intel-Xeon-Gold, HP ELITDESK 800 G3-Gaming Desktop i7-7700K 32GB PC, LENOVO M900Z 23'' AIO i5/8GB/256 GB SSD 

All technology transfer activities planned and carried out at Izmir University of Economics are managed by Izmir University of Economics Project Development and Technology Transfer Office (IEUTTO) since 2010. By establishing the “Technology Development Center” roof of IEUTTO, the cooperation of Izmir University of Economics, Izmir Chamber of Commerce and Izmir Bilimpark (Technopark); It is aimed to be a high added value TTO that can convert high value added products and services. As IEUTTO, academics, entrepreneurs, industry members and students are informed about national and international funds and support mechanisms in a timely manner and they are given consultancy in project development steps. Joint development of projects with industry is encouraged and steps are taken to commercialize the output of university-industry cooperation projects. Within the framework of intellectual and industrial rights, the target groups (academicians, industrialists, entrepreneurs and students) are pioneers and they are guided in the steps of corporation by ensuring their participation in appropriate programs specifically for entrepreneurship.

Totally 18 internationally funded projects (3.69 million EUR budget of IEU; with the total consortium budget of 10 million EUR) have been carried out in the last 5 years at IEU.* These projects were Tubitak (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Turkey-Russia Bilateral Cooperation Project, Horizon 2020 projects, Erasmus+ Projects (including 2 Jean Monnet Chair), Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) Project, Newton Fund Project and 2 other projects in which two international universities (one is with Qatar University and the other is with Hong Kong University) have project contract on ongoing research. Projects have been developed by our academicians mostly from Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Communication and School of Foreign Languages. Apart from international projects, totally 128 projects supported by external national revenues have been carried out in the last 8 years.

 

Website:  https://www.ieu.edu.tr/en

 

Prof. Dr. Görsev Yener

I am a behavioral neurologist with a Ph.D. in biophysics working on the electroencephalography of dementia and neurodegenerative disorders.

After becoming a neurology specialist, I completed my fellowship in behavioral neurology at UCLA in 1993. After returning to Turkey, I founded an outpatient dementia clinic in Dokuz Eylül University, as one of the pioneer clinics in the country. I was also one of the founders of the Alzheimer’s Association in Turkey in Istanbul in 1997, and then became founder chair of the Izmir local branch in 2000.

Dokuz Eylül University dementia outpatient clinic helped produce many MSc or Ph.D. theses on the care of caregivers, educational programs, in governmental collaborations.

Since 1995, I worked as either a site principal investigator or country coordinator for many drug clinical trials.

My other contributions to the field included serving as a committee member of the Ministry of Health for the preparation of a dementia protocol for the country.

In the neurology and neurosciences departments, I was the mentor of around 30 theses on biomarkers, experimental studies, event-related potentials, behavioral/cognitive scales, development of virtual reality tests in the field of dementia and related disorders.

About 15 years ago, we founded the department of neuroscience at Health Sciences Institute bridging the basic scientists and clinicians in DEU.  In 2010, the DEU dementia center became one of the centers of excellence in the European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium. I served as a representative of the Turkish national funding agency (TÜBITAK, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) in the European Union in the JPND initiative. Our center collaborated with many centers in Europe, mainly with Italy, France, Ireland, and USA. Recently, I was selected to serve as the Program Chair in electrophysiology of The Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART) and selected to the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), ALS and FTD working group’s executive committee in 2021.

Currently, I work full-time teaching and research professor at Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Medicine, and as a guest researcher at International Biomedicine and Genome Center, Izmir, Turkey whilst continuing to supervise postgraduate theses in the DEU Department of Neurosciences and directing a national funding agency project and part of an IMI-EU and Erasmus+ project. I am the author of around 160 Web of Science articles and have over 2000 WOS citations and an H-index of 30.

 

 

Dr. Deniz Yerlikaya

 

Deniz Yerlikaya holds her PhD and master’s degree in Neuroscience and her bachelor’s degree in psychology. Her studies focus on electrophysiological methods, neuropsychological assessment and structural magnetic resonance imaging in healthy aging,  Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment and Parkinson’s disease. Part of her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals.