TÜBA Member Prof. Gürsan at AASSA-WISE Committee for the 5th Time
Prof. Kadriye Arzum Erdem Gürsan, a principal member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) and a faculty member at Ege University, has been elected for the fifth time to the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Committee of the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA).
Having served on the AASSA-WISE Committee since 2017, Prof. Gürsan was nominated again by TÜBA for the 2025–2027 term and has been re-elected. Expressing her satisfaction with being part of the committee's work, Prof. Gürsan emphasized that efforts for women in science are not only crucial today but also vital for future women scientists. She stated that ensuring gender equality in scientific research will open doors to broader opportunities in science, research, and development. She underlined that every achievement by women, who struggle for presence at all stages of life across the world, serves as an inspiration for future generations of women.
Who is Prof. Kadriye Arzum Erdem Gürsan?
Prof. Gürsan graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Ege University in 1993. She received her master’s degree in 1996 and her Ph.D. in 2000 from the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the same faculty. Between 2000–2003, she worked as an assistant professor and between 2003–2009 as an associate professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ege University.
In 2001, she was awarded the TÜBA-GEBİP (Outstanding Young Scientist Award Program) award. She received the TÜBİTAK Incentive Award in the field of Physical Sciences–Chemistry in 2006, and the TÜBİTAK Science Award in the field of Health Sciences in 2015. She became an associate member of TÜBA in 2007 and a full member in 2016. In 2017, she was elected as a member of the AASSA-WISE Committee for the 2017–2019 term and re-elected for the 2019–2021 term. In the same year, she was honored with the prestigious Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) title for her significant contributions in chemistry.
In 2021, she was selected as one of the supported researchers under TÜBİTAK’s National Leading Researchers Program (2247-A). Prof. Gürsan has published over 210 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals indexed in SCI/SCI-E, has delivered over 30 invited talks at national and international meetings and conferences, and has edited 1 international and 1 national book, authored 15 international book chapters, and written 5 review articles. Between 2018 and 2022, she registered 7 national patents. As of June 10, 2023, according to Web of Science (WoS), she has received 7,430 citations and holds an h-index of 45.
Prof. Gürsan's research focuses on the development and application of electrochemical biosensors based on drugs, enzymes, and nucleic acids. Her scientific interests include: Drug-DNA interactions, Aptamer-protein interactions, Sequence-selective nucleic acid hybridization related to hereditary and infectious diseases, development of next-generation biosensor/aptasensor technologies based on “disposable” principles for single and multiplex detection of biomarkers.
She aims to develop electrochemical biosensors using magnetic particles, carbon nanotubes, graphene and graphene-based nanomaterials, nanorods, nanowires, nanoparticles, dendrimers, conductive polymers, and biopolymers. Additionally, she is working on analytical systems integrated with electrochemical sensors for the detection of various analytes in the fields of environment, food, and health.
Since 2021, Prof. Gürsan has served as associate editor of the Q1-ranked journal “Biosensors and Bioelectronics” (impact factor: 10.618) published by Elsevier, and as co-editor-in-chief of its open-access companion journal “Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X”. She continues her academic work at Ege University’s Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, where she has been active since 2009.