Prize & Awards
- 2021-2022-2023: Listed in the world ranking of top 0.05 % scientists and top 10 in agronomy by Stanford University based on the Elsevier’s Scopus database
- 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