➤ Fellowships

• (2023-2026) Postdoctoral Fellowship, F.R.S-FNRS mandate, Belgium. Host institute University of Mons.
• (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, Turkey.

➤ Funds

• (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.

➤ Scientific Awards

• (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.

➤ Travel Grants

• (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.

➤ Memberships

• (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).

➤ Collaboration

(Based on running projects and research papers)
Europe
• Prof. Andreja Rajkovic- Ghent University, Belgium.
• Dr. Luca Dellafiora- University of Parma, Italy.
• Dr. Julien Masquelier- Sciensano Institute, Tervuren, Belgium.
• Prof. Gerard Bryan Gonzales- Ghent University, Belgium.
• Dr. Elisabeth Varga- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria.
• Dr. Mohammed Aufy- University of Vienna, Austria.
• Dr. Dachuan Zhang- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
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. Terken Baydar- Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
• Prof. Mahmoud Abudayyak- Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Africa
• Dr. Sara Redouane Salah- University Mohamed khider Biskra, Algeria.