Prof Neva Caliskan, Affiliated Scientist
About
Neva Caliskan studied molecular biology and genetics at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (Turkey) and worked as a visiting scholar in 2005 at EMBL in Heidelberg. She received her Master's degree at the International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology (Göttingen) in 2009. After completing her PhD in 2013, she first worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physical Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and then as a project leader at the same institute from 2015 to 2017. In 2018, the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI) established a research group on recoding mechanisms in infection, headed by Neva Caliskan. The group ended in 2024, when Caliskan was appointed professor and head of the Department of Biochemistry III at the University of Regensburg. Since then, Caliskan has contributed to research at the HIRI as an afflliated scientist.