About MeHey there :)
This is Zeynep Başgöze (or "Basgoze" without the beautiful Turkish letters)! Welcome to my academic life that is covered with pride, tears, resistance, courage, persistence, patience, and (I'd like to believe) success. I graduated from Boğaziçi University, Philosophy Department in Istanbul, Turkey. Then I told myself "Okay, I've learned great questions, but now I need some answers!" So, I finished my Master of Science degree in the Middle East Technical University, Cognitive Sciences Department, in Ankara, Turkey. Finally I received my PhD degree from the same department. I taught cognitive psychology in Bilkent and Baskent Universities' Psychology Departments for a while. Although I love teaching, my unstoppable passion for research and learning more & more (and some unfortunate political turmoils in my beautiful country, which I like to call a "heaven governed like hell") made me decide to change my path. Therefore, I started to work as a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Emily Cooper's lab at the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department, Dartmouth College, NH, USA. When our lab moved to Berkeley, I kept working with Dr. Cooper as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Even if I loved working at this amazing environment with both super smart and kind people, I realized that I really missed working on Major Depression Disorder and analyzing fMRI data, and that my purpose in this life is not creating better display systems, but it is helping people heal. Therefore, I moved to Minneapolis to work on adolescent depression with Dr. Kathryn Cullen at the department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School, MN, USA. After working here as a Postdoctoral Associate for 3 years, I got hired as a Neuroimaging Research Scientist, located at the Masonic Institute of Developing Brain (MIDB). I am a research enthusiast, mainly working on cognitive neuroscience. I'm specialized in designing both behavioral & fMRI experiments. I am particularly interested in emotion regulation impairments in psychiatric disorders, such as major depression disorder, suicidal thought and behaviors, and non-suicidal self-injury. I am also interested in binocular vision, visual adaptation, as well as brain plasticity. Apart from my scientific skills, I do ballet, I write poems, and learn to play cello :) |
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Awards • METU Best MSc Thesis of Informatics Institute Award (2010)
• Turkish Psychopharmachology Association Poster award (2nd Place): 'Volumetric morphology analysis of compartments of the anterior cingulate cortex in major depressive disorder' (2007) • Graduated in the 2nd place from Philosophy Department, Boğaziçi University (2005) |
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University of Minnesota, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (2020-...) Cooper Lab UC Berkeley School of Optometry (2018-2020) Dartmouth Computational Vision Group Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College (2017-2018) CogLab Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Başkent University Psychology Department (2015 - 2017) Metuneuro Lab Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Lab, METU Informatics Institute, Medical Informatics (2006 - 2015) BAUM (Brain Research and Application Center), Ankara University (2009-2012) |
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