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My name is Tugce, pronounced as 2Che. I am a lecturer in bioinformatics in Zürich, Switzerland. I recently moved back here from New York with my husband and our cat, Merlin. I teach yoga for refugees and give creative coding workshops. I am passionate about bringing equal opportunities in whichever environment I work in. Reach me via tutu.bilgin@gmail.com

Fundraising and Grants

I am an experienced fundraiser. Next to the full scholarships, I received for my undergrad and master studies, I got the national science foundation graduation project grant (1500 TL), ESEB congress registration fund (250‎€), Forschungskredit Post-doc grant (CHF 92,000), ESEB Fund for Equal Opportunities (900‎€) and for my crowdfunding campaign (CHF 4,000) from 100-days.net. The annual […]

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Scientific Outreach

I highly value reaching out to young minds. Hence I have been in various many scientific activities addressing non-scientific audiences. These include organising and teaching workshops for pupils, giving talks to nonscientific audiences and writing popular science books and articles. Workshops In 2028, I got involved in organizing a programming workshop aimed at high school […]

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Teaching and Supervision

I am a lecturer at the Zürich University of Applied Science. Before this, I used to teach in Frontiers of Science program, a science course for all majors in Columbia University. I also teach scientific coding in Brooklyn College, City University of New York as a part time instructor. I  have involved in multiple teaching […]

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