Betul Kacar Net Worth, Age, Family, Husband, Biography, and More

Betul completed her Schooling in Istanbul and College at Emory University and Marmara University. Her Highest Qualification is Ph.D. in Biomolecular Chemistry.

Betul donated to NGOs and trusts, she has never revealed her donation, According to Gmda.in, Kacar donated to the needed ones and helped many people with education.

Betul Kacar Awards and Achievement

• She was honored with ‘Stanley L. Miller Early Career Award’.

 

Betul Kacar Biography / Interesting Fact

• Betul Kacar is a Popular Astrobiologist, Betul is known as the co-founder of the only astrobiology outreach and grassroots network SAGANet that serves teachers and students in astrobiology research globally.
• She was born in Istanbul, Turkey.
• From her childhood, she was a bright student.
• She received Howard Hughes Medical Institute undergraduate fellowship to spend a summer conducting scientific research at Emory University studying organic chemistry.
• She completed her Ph.D. in Biomolecular Chemistry at Emory University.
• Kacar was the first woman in her family to receive formal education.
• In 2010, she was appointed as a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• She was awarded a NASA scholarship (2011).
• In the same year, she became a member of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science.
• She was funded by NASA Astrobiology Institute and Exobiology Branch to continue her great work.
• In 2014, Kacar joined Harvard University where she led an independent research group as a fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
• She became a member of the Harvard Origins Initiative (2015).
• She was part of the Global Science Coordinator for ELSI Origins Network aiming to increase early-career research scientist participation in the field of origins of life.
• Her research encompasses the origins of life, early evolution, life in the universe, and how the molecular mechanisms of evolution can be understood.
• She was the first to resurrect an ancient gene inside a modern microbial genome.
• Her research team defined ‘evolutionary stalling’ as an evolutionary mechanism to prevent a module from reaching its local performance peak and thereby impose a genetic load.
• In 2019, she was named NASA Early Career Faculty Fellow.
• Kacar received the Scialog fellowship for her studies on life in the universe by the Research Corporation and Science Advancement (2020).
• In 2020, she discussed finding alien life at SXSW.
• She supported the education of girls and women globally at UN Women Generation Equality Campaign (2020).
• In the same year, she proposed a possible application of prebiotic chemistry, sending the chemical capacity for life to emerge on another planetary body.
• Kacar leads the NASA Astrobiology Center in molecular paleobiology to understand alien planets and ancient life.
• She is the first Turkish woman and the youngest scientist to lead a NASA research center.
• Kacar has appeared on TED Talks.

• She worked as a professor at the University of Wisconsin, in the Department of Bacteriology.
• Kacar has received more than $9 million of grant funding as a lead investigator.

 

 

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Who is Betul Kacar?

Betul Kacar is a Popular Astrobiologist, from Istanbul, Turkey. Betul is known as the co-founder of the only astrobiology outreach and grassroots network SAGANet that serves teachers and students in astrobiology research globally.

 

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