Zehra SAYERS By facebooker_125303973396528 Oct 25, 1953 Zehra SAYERS' birthday 1974 Bogazici Univ. Department of Physics 1979 University of London. PhD in biophysics 1986 Started working at EMBL 1996 Became a Professor 1998 She became a founding faculty member. She became a founding faculty member at Sabancı University. 2000 SESAME got involved in the project. She took part in the Middle East Synchrotron Radiation Experimental Science and Applications (SESAME) project. 2001 She chaired the scientific advisory committee of SASEMA LABORATORY. 2011 Selected as Foundation Development Program director 2013 She gave a TEDxCERN talk. 2017 EuroScience Rammal Award 2019 She became the first Turk to be awarded the AAAS Diplomacy in Science Award and entered the BBC 100 Women list the same year.