Salih Bülent Alten
Bulent Alten, (born May 1, 1964 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Full Professor at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey and has been a member of Science Faculty since 1986. He received a B.S. degree in Biology, an M.S. degree in Zoology-Entomology in 1989 and a PhD degree in Ecology with the thesis entitled “ Investigation on Bio-ecology of Culex species (Diptera: Culicidae) in southern Turkey” in 1993 from Hacettepe University. Prior to getting a full Professor, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Ecology in 1996 and an Associated Professor of Ecology and Mathematic in 2004. He founded The Ecological Science Research Laboratories (ESRL) in Ecology Department and The Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics Laboratories (EEGL) in Genetic Department in 2007. He was invited to Montpellier, France by Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD/CNRS/UM) with the grant of Infectiopole Sud, French Government as an Invited Professor to establish vector-ecology unit and to perform a European Union Project (Edenext) together with French scientists between 2010 and 2011. He was Vice-Chairman of Biology Department between 2000-2004 and 2007-2011, Member of Scientific Council of Hacettepe University between 2009-2012 and Member of Higher Education Council of Hacettepe University between 2009-2016.
His research interests in Ecology are in the areas of vector ecology and taxonomy (sand fly and mosquito species), population biology and genetic, geometric morphometrics, modeling and management of vector control methods, and population modeling. He is the author of over 1140 scientific papers, 47 technical reports, 7 books and is an active consultant for government and industry in these areas. Under his supervision, a total of 13 MSc and 12 PhD theses in Turkey, France, Serbia, Spain, Romania and Kosovo. He was an invited lecturer at Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) in South Africa in 1999, International Coordination Workshop on Integrated Biological Control (IBC) of Mosquito Vectors of Malaria in the Central Asian Republics in Uzbekistan in 2000, at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2005, Institut Pasteur D’Algerie in 2007 and at Instituto nacional De Pesquisas Da Amazonia-INPA Laboratorio De malaria E Dengue, SUMMER SCHOOL, Manaus, Brasil. He is a Principal Investigator of 32 National and 11 international projects, which are FP6 EDEN FP7 Edenext, EU ECDC VBORNET, VECTORNET, MEDILABSECURE, AIMCOST, EUROVECNET, HU-WRBU-GEIS, CLIMOS, EU-MARIE CURIE TransLeish. In 1999, British Airways presented him with the Environment for Tomorrow Award for his work on determination of biological richness and establishment of conversation model for Belek Region in Turkey; United Nations with Environment Award for his nature conversation studies performing in Belek Region of Turkey; and he was awarded with Distinguished Achievement Award by SOVE for outstanding accomplishment in Vector Ecology in 2009. Dr. Alten was in Scientific and Organization Committee of many scientific congresses on basic ecology and vector ecology including 13th European SOVE Meeting in 2000 (organizer), 15th European SOVE Meeting in 2006, 5th International Congress of Vector Ecology in 2009 (organizer), 17th European SOVE Conference in 2010, 18th European SOVE Congress in 2012 (under his supervision). He is a member of SOVE (Society for Vector Ecologist), EMCA (European Mosquito Control Association) and Turkish Parasitology Society.
Dr. Alten is also a member of Society For Vector Ecology (SOVE) since 1989 and he was elected as President of European SOVE in 2011. He is Director of Science Institute since 2020.
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