DEAN OF  THE  FACULTY  OF  AGRICULTURE  &  HEAD OF LANDSCAPE ARCHİTECTURE DEPARTMENT

Prof. Dr. Özge Özden was born on 01 October 1977 in Nicosia, Cyprus. After primary school
education in Lapta Primary School, she completed her secondary and high school education
in Lapta Yavuzlar High School in 1994. Then, after graduating from Uludağ University
Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection in 1999, she started to work as a
Research Assistant at European University of Lefke, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences,
Department of Horticulture in 2000.  In the same year, she started her graduate education at
Çukurova University Faculty of Agriculture and received the title of Agricultural Engineer in
February 2002. Between 2004-2005, she worked on a scientific research project with Bonn
University in Germany as a 1-year full scholarship. Özge Özden completed her doctorate on
"Biodiversity" in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter, England,
in 2009 and received the title of "Doctor" and in 2010, she completed the criteria of the
Regulation on Promotion and Appointment to Faculty Members at EUL, and received the title
of Assistant Professor. She has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of
Exeter since 2009. Prof. Dr. Özge Özden has been working as lecturer, Department of
Landscape Architecture since 2012. She has many scientific articles published in
international journals, 46 papers presented at international conferences and 4 books
published separately. There were 25 scientific research projects in total that have received
international support (EU, UNDP, DFG, BMZ). She is currently Professor of Ecology at Near
East University, and has been working as the Deputy Director of the Near East University
Cyprus Herbarium and Natural History Museum since May 2019. She was appointed as the
Founding Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture in September 2021.

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