Kubra Ulucan-Altuntas is an environmental engineer and researcher at Istanbul Technical University, working on advanced water and wastewater treatment technologies with particular emphasis on cold atmospheric plasma, membrane processes and advanced oxidation processes. She coordinates Memb-CAP as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, hosted at the National Membrane Technologies Research Centre (MEM-TEK).
Her work spans more than 40 publications and one patent, built across research positions in Türkiye, Italy and Germany and multiple international fellowships.
Positions
- 2023 – presentAssociate Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Department of Environmental Engineering
- 2019 – 2023Assistant Professor, University of Padova, Italy
- 2009 – 2021Research Assistant, Yildiz Technical University
- 2013Visiting Researcher, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
- 2010 – 2011Visiting Researcher, University of Cagliari, Italy
Awards & fellowships
- 2025"Science, She Says!" award, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs — read more →
- 2025 – presentERA Fellowship, European Commission
- 2024Seal of Excellence, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2020 – 2022Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
- 2019 – 2020Post-Doctoral Fellowship, TÜBİTAK, Türkiye
- 2015 – 2017Priority Field Doctoral Scholarship, TÜBİTAK
- 2013Forschungskurzstipendium, DAAD
- 2010 – 2011ERASMUS Scholarship