Ranya Özçelik - CV
Curriculum Vitae
1.Personal information
Full name, title Ranya Özçelik, DVM
Current position PhD candidate & Resident of the European College of Veterinary Public Health at the Veterinary Public Health Institute University of Bern
Contact information Schwarzenburgstrasse 161, 3097 Bern [email protected] +41 31 631 5741
Nationality German (Swiss residence permit B)
Date and 05.06.1992, Oldenburg (Germany) place of birth Marital status single ORCID number https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1879-5142
Research interests: veterinary epidemiology, infectious disease surveillance, zoonoses, One Health, Bayesian statistics
2.Education
Since 01/2019 PhD candidate in Public Health Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Swiss inter-university certificate program, training in public health, planed thesis submission 15.11.2020
Since 06/2018 Resident of the European College of Veterinary Public Health Veterinary Public Health Institute (VPHI), University of Bern, Switzerland Training to become a diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Public Health, subspecialty population medicine, supervised by Dr. Luís Pedro Gomes do Carmo
Since 06/2017 PhD candidate in Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology Graduate School of Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB) Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland supervised by Assistant Prof Dr. Salome Dürr, thesis title: “Establishing and evaluating community-based surveillance in Switzerland and Chad”, planed thesis defense 15.10.2020
08/2016 – 02/2017 Doctoral student (for a DVM) Department of Veterinary Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland, thesis title: “Prepartum daylight exposure increases serum calcium concentrations in dairy cows at the onset of lactation”, thesis defense 29.09.2017, supervision by Prof. Dr. Rupert Bruckmaier and Dr. Lorenzo E. Hernández Castellano
09/2010 – 03/2016 Veterinary degree, Veterinary Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich, Germany, state examination passed on 09.03.2016
09/2006 – 06/2010 High school education, St Georg's Austrian High School, Istanbul, Turkey
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3.Employment history
Since 06/2017 PhD candidate (75%) Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland supervised by Assistant Prof. Dr. Salome Dürr
08/2016 – 02/2017 Doctoral student for a DVM (60 %) Department of Veterinary Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland supervised by Prof. Dr. Rupert Bruckmaier and Dr. Lorenzo E. Hernández Castellano
4.Institutional tasks
Since 01/2019 Institute representative at the Intermediate Staff Association (MVUB) of the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland
06/2017 – 12/2019 Organization of the Veterinary Public Health Seminars bi-weekly seminars with national and international guest speakers (http://www.vphi.ch/continuing_education/vphi_seminar/index_eng.html)
5.Approved research projects
05/2019 Co-grant holder of the Fund for the Promotion of Young Researchers from the University of Bern (5’000 CHF), for the organization of the self-initiated first international “Early career scientist transdisciplinary workshop” at the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern
6.Supervision of junior researchers
08-09/2016 Libby De Gregorio (supervision of data collection), University of Bern
7.Teaching
06/2018 and 06/2019 Teaching assistant, Epidemiology and biostatistics PhD summer school VPHI, University of Bern, Switzerland
12/2019 Teaching assistant, Introduction to epidemiology, first year veterinary medicine studies course, VPHI, University of Bern, Switzerland
8.Membership in panels, boards, etc., and individual scientific reviewing activities
03/2019 – 11/2019 Scientific member of the COST Action Project (CA17110) Standardizing OUtput-based surveillance to control Non-regulated Diseases of cattle in the EU (SOUND Control) since 03/2018 Scientific member of the COST Action Project (TD1404) Network for the Evaluation of One Health (NEOH), now the European Chapter of Ecohealth International, “Network for Ecohealth and One Health”, (http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/)
9.Membership in scientific societies
Since 06/2018 Society member of the European College of Veterinary Public Health (ECVPH)
07/2017 – 07/2018 Member and volunteer at the Organization of Employed Veterinarians (Bund angestellter Tierärzte e.V.)
10/2010 – 03/2016 Member of the International Veterinary Students Association (IVSA) Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany
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10.Organization of conferences
02-04/09/2020 Co-organizer, “DACh Epidemiologie Tagung 2020”, Bern, Switzerland
06-07/05/2019 Co-organizer Early Career Scientist Transdisciplinary Workshop, University of Bern, Switzerland
Since 11/2017 Co-organizer, Veterinary Public Health Annual Conference, yearly in November, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern and Zurich, University of Bern & Zurich, Switzerland
09-10/02/2017 Co-organizer, «Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe zur Förderung von Eutergesundheit und Milchhygiene in den Alpenländern e.V. (AFEMA)» Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland
11.Prizes, awards and fellowships
05/2020 Conference fellowship of the Graduate School of Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance, Copenhagen, Denmark
03/2019 Conference fellowship of the Graduate School of Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, Conference and annual general meeting (AGM) of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SVEPM), Utrecht, Netherlands
11/2018 Poster prize, Vetsuisse Veterinary Public Health Conference “Community-based observation of human and animal symptoms in Yao and Danamadji, Chad” Zurich, Switzerland
09/2018 Conference fellowship of the Graduate School of Cellular and Biomedical Sciences DACh Epidemiologie Tagung, Greifswald, Germany
09/2018 Conference fellowship, Final Consortium Meeting of the COST Action Project NEOH Bologna, Italy
04/2018 Short term scientific mission (STSM) fellowship from the COST Action Project NEOH research exchange at CIRAD (French Agricultural Center for International Development), Montpellier, France
06/2009 Fellowship, International Ice Climate Education (ICE) Camp, Húsavík, Iceland
06-08/2015 Research fellowship, VetResearch in the framework of “Lehre@LMU” Project on Equine Herpes Virus Type-1, Equine Clinic for Reproduction and Internal Medicine, LMU Munich, supervised by Prof. Lutz S. Göhring
12.Skills
Languages Digital Skills German, native speaker (C2) Programming language: R, NCSS, SAS English, native speaker (C2) Data collection software: KoBoCollect, LimeSurvey Turkish, native speaker (C2) General software: Microsoft office French, A1 Website management: TYPO3
Personal skills Equestrian sports, choir singer, previous music band member (bass guitar and second vocals)
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