Ayberk Ozkirli

Dr. Ayberk Ozkirli is a vision neuroscientist whose research investigates how spatiotemporal context influences visual perception.He completed his PhD in Neuroscience at the Laboratory of Psychophysics at EPFL in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Herzog and Prof. David Pascucci. He holds an M.Sc. in Bioengineering from EPFL (Switzerland) and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University (Turkey).His expertise spans neuroimaging, statistics, experimental design, neural data processing, and vision science. He also holds a PRINCE2 project management certification.Throughout his academic career, Dr. Ozkirli has received multiple awards for academic excellence. His bachelor's graduation project was awarded Bilkent EEE Senior Project Award. His PhD thesis was awarded the EPFL Doctoral Program Thesis Distinction Prize  and nominated for the Brain-Mind Institute Prize as well as the Lopez-Loreta Prize.  Education Ph.D. | Neuroscience 2020 – 2025 EPFL, Switzerland Directed by Prof. Michael Herzog & David Pascucci M.Sc. | Life Sciences Engineering with a minor in Computational Neurosciences 2018 – 2020 EPFL, Switzerland B.Sc. | Electrical & Electronics Engineering 2013 – 2018 Bilkent University, Turkey Awards Awarded Doctoral Program Thesis Distinction Prize EPFL 2025 Preselected Candidate for Lopez-Loreta Prize (PhD Thesis) EPFL 2025 Nominated for Brain-Mind Institute Thesis Prize (PhD Thesis) PhD oral exam jury 2025 Best Electrical and Electronics Engineering Graduation Project Award Bilkent University 2018