Einstein Junior Fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of Technology at the TU Berlin

• Politics of Expertise
• Technology Transfer
• Water Infrastructures
• Material Culture Studies
• Environmental History

• Since Oct 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of Technology at the TU Berlin
• Aug 2021: Ph.D. degree in Sociology, Koç University, Turkey
• Sep 2019 – May 2020: Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University, Macmillan Center, USA
• 2018 Feb-May: International Visiting Research Trainee at the History Department, York University, Canada
• 2014 - 2021 Research and Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University, Turkey
• Aug 2014: M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering, Koç University, Turkey
• 2012 – 2014: Researcher at Systems Lab, Graduate School of Engineering, Koç University, Turkey
• June 2012: B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

• Alkan, A., Erol, M., and Kasdogan, D. (forthcoming). Placing STS in and through Turkey. Revised and submitted for the Engaging Science, Technology, and Society Places and Spaces Special Collection.
• Ergin, M., and Alkan, A. (2019). Academic neo-colonialism in writing practices: Geographic markers in three journals from Japan, Turkey and the US. Geoforum, 104, 259-266.
• Alkan, A. (2018). Bilim ve Teknoloji Çalısmalarında Altyapılar: GAP’ın Kara Kutusu (Infrastructures in STS: The Black-box of Southeast Anatolia Project). Toplum ve Bilim, 144, 105-124.

• Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
• 2017-present: One of the founding members of IstanbuLab: Science, Technology and Society Platform in Turkey, https://stsistanbul.org

• 2021 - 2023: Einstein Junior Scholars Fellowship
• 2015 - 2021: Koç University Full Scholarship during Ph.D. studies
• 2019 - 2020: Fulbright Fellowship for Ph.D. Dissertation Research Program
• 2014 - 2018: Scholar of Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
• 2012 - 2014: Koç University Full Scholarship during M.Sc. studies