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Mehmet Akif Turan

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-18263
Mail: Mehmet.Turan@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Unit: Cartography

Research Associate

Curriculum vitae

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree (2014–2018): Psychology, Üsküdar University
  • Master’s Degree (2021–2025): Psychology, specialising in Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Master Thesis: The Association between Quantitative MRI Metrics and Intelligence


Research & Occupational Experience

  • Internship (2024-2025) at Leibniz-Institut für Arbeitsforschung an der Technischen Universität Dortmund (IfADo), project “Understanding and manipulating intelligence on a scale of microseconds and millimeters”.
  • Tutor (2025) Seminar Evolution and Emotion, Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Since 2025 Research Associate in the ERC project Inner Map


Personal Interests

  • MRI Physics
  • Task-based fMRI
  • Functional connectivity