Prize & Awards

  • 2019: named as “Highly Cited Researcher”” in Agricultural Sciences by Clarivate Analytics
  • 2017: named as “Highly Cited Researcher”” in Agricultural Sciences by Clarivate Analytics
  • 2016: International Plant Nutrition Institute-2016 Science Prize
  • 2016: World Academy of Sciences Prize in Agricultural Sciences
  • 2014 June: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation “Georg Forster Research Award”
  • 2012 December: Elected member of “The Science Academy” of Turkey.
  • 2012 September: Elected member of the “The Academy of Europe”
  • 2011 October: Elected Member of the International Society of Trace Element Research in Humans Council
  • 2007 November: Recipient of the 2007 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Crawford Fund “Derek Tribe Award Medal”
  • 2005 May: IFA-International Crop Nutrition Award (IFA: Int’l Fertilizer Ind. Assoc., Paris)
  • 1999 January: TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey)-Science Prize
  • 1999 January-October: Alexander von Humboldt-Fellowship, Hohenheim University, Germany
  • 1998 June-December: USDA Research Fellowship, Cornell University-Ithaca
  • 1995 June-October: OECD-Research Fellowship, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart
  • 1994 January: TUBITAK-Junior Science Prize
  • 1990-1991: DFG-Postdoctoral Fellow, Stuttgart- University of Hohenheim
  • 1989: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hannover