{"id":3126,"date":"2025-10-14T03:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:45:33","slug":"burcak-basbug-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee-ordinary-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/14\/burcak-basbug-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee-ordinary-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Bur\u00e7ak Basbug: Candidacy for CODATA Executive Committee Ordinary Member"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is the fourteenth in the series of short statements from candidates in the coming CODATA Elections at <\/span><\/i>the General Assembly to be held on 17-18 October 2025<\/span><\/i><\/a>. Bur\u00e7ak Basbug is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member.<\/span><\/i> She was nominated by the Middle East Technical University<\/i><\/b>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

It is an honour and privilege to be nominated to be part of the CODATA Team, who are dedicated to connect people and science to address global challenges!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Knowledge grows, when it is shared!\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

I am very passionate and enthusiastic <\/span>as a scientist, as a woman, as a mother<\/b> to provide a safer world to people in need. I strongly believe we, if we unite, can reduce the impacts of any disaster in anywhere in the World. We can create safer communities, safer nations, safer Globe for the humanity. It is our responsibility to leave a better World to our children, grandchildren, grand grandchildren… and for all of us!<\/span><\/p>\n

On my current role, I work a Professor of Statistics and Disaster Science, at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara-T\u00fcrkiye. <\/span>I graduated from METU Department of Statistics in June 1999. My appointment to academia as a research and teaching assistant is 16 August 1999, which is the day before the devastating 17 August 1999 Marmara earthquake.\u00a0 So, it was meant for me to work in disaster statistics. Since then, I have been working hard to understand disaster related data, use it to generate strong policies so that we can reduce disaster risks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2000, I moved to the UK to persuade my graduate studies at the University of Warwick (MSc.in Statistics-2001) and London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D. in Statistics-2007). I worked under the supervision of the late Emeritus Professor Henry. P. Wynn, who was the president of the Royal Statistical Society UK (<\/span>https:\/\/rss.org.uk\/news-publication\/news-publications\/2024\/general-news\/henry-philip-wynn,-1945%E2%80%932024\/<\/span><\/a> ). I learnt a lot from him in the World of Statistics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been teaching, researching and developing for 26 years at international level as well as national level on disaster risk reduction, earthquake insurance, applied statistics, linear models, statistical design of experiments, survey and sampling methods, disaster risk governance. <\/span>I had opportunity to merge theoretical knowledge with field experience in the following events:<\/span><\/p>\n