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Didem Unat is a faculty member at Koç University. She is the first researcher from Turkey to receive ERC funding from the European Research Council in the field of Computer Science for her project BEYONDMOORE for 2021-2026 period. She is currently acting as the project coordinator of the EuroHPC partnered project of 2.6M €. She is named the “Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing” by ACM SigHPC in 2021, the first recipient of this award outside the US.

She is known for her work on programming models, performance tools, and system software for emerging parallel architectures. She received her PhD degree from the University of California, San Diego, and later the Luis Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2015), the BAGEP Award (2019), the British Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship (2020), and the 2021 Young Scientist Awards.