• Visiting Fellow, Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum, March 2024.

 

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Post-Doctoral Fellowship, September 2021-August 2023, European Commission. Project title: VIDEOACT: The use of video as an activist tool of self-representation by Turkish Practitioners in Germany. 

 

• Communing in Crisis: A collaborative video essay about the entanglement of fear and hope, produced in collaboration with  Julia Lazarus, funded as part of “Pandemic and panic: what does a world look like with and after COVID-19?” project call by the Goethe Institute Istanbul and Tarabya Cultural Academy, August 2020.

 

• France-Turkey Scholarship Program: Young Researchers Scholarship, October-November, 2017, Paris (France). Subject of Research: French-Turkish Cinematic Co-productions. 

 

• Event Director for Migration Film Days: Sub-Saharan African Migration to Turkey in Cinema, online film screenings and talks series organized in collaboration with Kadir Has University (TÜBİTAK BIDEB 2232 program) and Medyascope TV, May 2020.

 

• ERASMUS Academic Personnel Exchange Grant, Academy of Dramatic Arts (Zagreb, Croatia), March 2016. Title of Lecture Series: An Introduction to Turkish Film: From Yeşilçam to the New Cineastes.

 

• Early Bird International Student Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 2014: “Best Documentary Film” for Set-Up (dir. Şirin Erensoy, 2014).

 

• European Exchange Academy, Beelitz–Heilstätten, Germany: Student Artist Resident, July-August 2011.

 

• TÜRSAK Foundation, Cinema of the Future Short Film Support Competition, June 2010: 2,500 Turkish Lira production support for The Short Anatomy of a Murder (dir. Şirin Erensoy, 2011).