About

Mustafa İsmail Özkaraca is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ewing Research Group at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC). He began his academic journey at Bilkent University in Türkiye, where he earned both his undergraduate and master’s degrees in mathematics, supported by joint funding from Bilkent University and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK).

Following his master’s degree in 2013, İsmail joined TÜBİTAK as an assistant expert, contributing to a team responsible for allocating funding to academic mathematics and physics projects. In 2014, he left this role to pursue a PhD in mathematics at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, where he was awarded the Mathematics Department Fellowship for his first two semesters. He later transitioned to the University of Glasgow to continue his PhD studies, better aligning with his evolving research interests.

In 2021, İsmail completed his PhD and joined Albert Tenesa’s group, initially based at IGC and later at the Roslin Institute. His research primarily focused on developing the theoretical framework for efficient, large-scale genomic analysis software.

Since August 2023, İsmail has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ewing Research Group, where his work centers on investigating the impact of structural variants on tumor dynamics.