Convenor

A. Nuray Karanci

A. Nuray Karanci, Ph.D is the representative from the Republic of Turkey. She is a lecturer in the Psychology Department of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey since 1980. She got her M.S in Clinical Psychology from Liverpool University, U.K and her PhD from Hull University U.K. Since 1993, she has been extensively involved in research on psychological consequences of earthquakes, disaster management and facilitating community participation in disaster management and preparing disaster preparedness guidelines and training of trainees programs. She has worked with earthquake survivors as a clinical psychologist and provided individual psychological services and group debriefing programs. Furthermore, she was responsible for capacity building for disaster mitigation and preparedness for emergency workers and the survivors of the 1999 Marmara Earthquake. She is one of the founding members of , METU, Disaster Research and Implementation Center and has been involved in applied and basic research in disasters. She is also a member of the Turkish National Earthquake Council and vice president of the International Natural Hazards Society. She has got numerous international and national publications related to her research interests.