Position after leaving my group: Assistant Professor at Van University, Turkey

Post-doc in my group from 2014-2016

Post-Doc project: “Paleomagnetic investigation of rotations in the Cyprus arc”

2007-2013

PhD project: “Evolution of Miocene sedimentary basins in the southern Taurides, Turkey (METU, Ankara, Turkey)”

Supervisors: Prof. Nuretdin Kaymakci, Prof. Reinoud Vissers, Dr. Douwe van Hinsbergen

Publications

1. van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Gürer, D., Koç, A., Lom, N., 2024, Shortening and extrusion in the East Anatolian Plateau: how was Neogene Arabia-Europe convergence tectonically accommodated?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 641, 118827
2. McPhee, P.J.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Koç, A., 2022, Reply to Comment on “Preparing the ground for plateau growth: Late Neogene Central Anatolian uplift in the context of orogenic and geodynamic evolution since the Cretaceous”, Tectonophysics, 836, 229404
3. McPhee, P.J.**, Koç, A.*, and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J. 2022, Preparing the ground for plateau growth: Late Neogene Central Anatolian uplift in context of orogenic and geodynamic evolution since the Cretaceous, Tectonophysics 822, 229131
4. Koç, A., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., and Langereis, C.G., 2018, Rotations of normal fault blocks quantify extension in the Central Tauride intramontane basins, SW Turkey, Tectonics 37, p. 2307–2327.
5. Koç, A.*, Kaymakcı, N., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., and Kuiper, K.F., 2017, Miocene tectonic history of the Central Tauride intramontane basins, and the palegeographic evolution of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Global and Planetary Change 158, p. 83-102
6. Koç, A.*, Kaymakcı, N., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., and Vissers, R.L.M, 2016, A Miocene onset of the modern extensional regime in the Isparta Angle: constraints from the Yalvaç Basin (southwest Turkey), International Journal of Earth Sciences 105, p. 369-398
7. Koç, A.*, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Langereis, C.G., and Kaymakcı, N., 2016, Late Neogene oroclinal bending in the central Taurides: a record of terminal eastward subduction in southern Turkey?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 434, p. 75-90
8. Koç, A.**, Kaymakcı, N., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Kuiper, K.F., and Vissers, R.L.M, 2012, Tectono-sedimentary evolution and geochronology of the middle Miocene Altınapa basin, and implications for the late Cenozoic uplift history of the Taurides, southern Turkey, Tectonophysics 532-535, p. 134-155
9. van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Dekkers, M.J., and Koç, A.**, 2010, Testing Miocene remagnetization of Bey Daglari: Timing and amount of Neogene rotations in SW Turkey, Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 19, p. 123-156

Outreach

Fieldwork

1. Turkey 2016
2. Turkey and Northern Cyprus 2014
3. Turkey 2009
4. Turkey 2008 – 2
5. Turkey 2008
6. Turkey 2006