➤ Fellowships

(12/2024) TÜBİTAK 2221-Fellowships for Visiting Scientists (short term). Host institute: Istanbul University, Türkiye.
(2023-2026) Postdoctoral Fellowship, F.R.S-FNRS mandate, Belgium. Host institute: University of Mons, Belgium.
(2020-2023) Postdoctoral Fellowship-Special Research Fund Ghent University, Belgium. Research grant number BOF20/PDO/032.
(2020) Marie Curie Research Leaders 2025 - A Fellowship Programme developing the Next Generation of Agri-Food Research Leaders, Austria/Ireland (granted, but untaken/excused).
(2016-2020) PhD Research Fellowship in the framework of Mycokey project, Ghent University, Belgium.
(2015-2016) Erasmus⁺ Student Mobility for Studies, Center for Analytical Chemistry, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Austria.
(2014) Erasmus⁺ Student Mobility for Placement, IfADo Institute, Dortmund, Germany.
(2013-2016) Turkish Government Scholarship, Türkiye.

➤ Funds

(2024) UMONS Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (Action Kangaroo) for the project "Optimizing a one-plate method for a high throughput toxicity Screening. Role: Principal Researcher.
(2021) VLIRUOS Global Minds Grant from Ghent University for the project "AF-CYSTIN-milk" to assess the incidence of aflatoxin M1 and microcystin-LR in water buffalo milk from Philippines and their potential in vitro toxic interaction. Role: Principal Researcher.
(2018) VLIRUOS Global Minds Grant from Ghent University for the side project "MYCOSUGAR" to enrich our knowledge on mycotoxin occurrence in sugarcane as an important cash crop in Africa. Role: Principal Researcher.

(2022) Best Oral Presentation from Toxins journal at the international conferencen Power of Fungi and Mycotoxins in Climate Change Symposium, Croatia.
(2019) The Young Scientist Award during the EURACHEM 2019 meeting held in Tartu, Estonia.
(2018) Best Poster Award from Toxins journal at the 2nd African Symposium on Mycotoxicology, Kenya.

(2023) National Demonstration Base for Talent Introduction Grant (17,000 RMB) to visit the nstitute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
(2023) Conference Travel Award (€500) Faculty of Bioscience Engineering-UGent to attend 44^th Mycotoxin-Workshop, Celle (at Hannover)-Germany.
(2022) Workshop Travel Award from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) to attend the Applied In Vitro Toxicology Course, Luxembourg.
(2022) Conference Travel Award (€500) Faculty of Bioscience Engineering-UGent to attend XVI^th International Congress of Toxicology (ICT 2022), Maastricht-the Netherlands.
(2018) Conference Travel Award (€1,000) Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences-UGent to attend the 2^nd International MycoKey Conference, Wuhan-China.
(2017) Conference Travel Award (€750) Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences-UGent to attend the 3^rd International Mass Spectrometry School, Dubrovnik-Croatia.

(Since 2025) Post-doctoral Representative of the SOT’s Food Safety Specialty Section (FS3).
(Since 2024) Board member European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV).
(Since 2023) Member of ILSI Europe’s Natural Toxins’ Expert Group.
(Since 2023) Full member Society for Mycotoxin Research.
(Since 2021) Full member European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV).
(Since 2021) Full member Belgian society of Toxicology (BelTox).
(Since 2020) Ordinary member International Society of Mycotoxicology (ISM).

Europe

Asia

Prof. Shupeng Yang- Institute of Food Science and Technology, Beijing, PR China.
Dr. Ye Tian- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, PR China.
Dr. Meiling Gao- Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, PR China.
Prof. Junhua Yang- Institute for Agri-Food Standards and Testing Technology, Shanghai, PR China.
Prof. Mahmoud Abudayyak- Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye.

Africa