Doctor of Philosophy from Turkey, former racing driver
Kaan Önder, (born 10 January 1997 in Istanbul) is a postdoctoral researcher at the ICTA-UAB and former Turkish race driver.
He holds titles of CIK SEEKZ (South East European Karting Zone) KF3 champion (2010), two times Turkish Karting Championship champion (KF3 in 2009 and ICA-J in 2008) and winner of the Rotax Max International Open Junior Category in 2011. He is the youngest Turkish race driver who attended the FIA ETCC in 2014.
As of the 2016 season he has been inactive, having retired from the motorsports to study mathematics and physics. In 2019 he got his Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours in Mathematical Physics from University of Southampton. In 2019 he moved to University of Cambridge and got his MASt and later PhD degrees in the high energy physics group at DAMTP. His PhD supervisor was David Tong and he earned his PhD studying dynamics of chiral fermions. During his Cambridge years he was a member of Downing College.
Degrowth
Dr. Önder is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of Autonomous University of Barcelona ICTA-UAB under the supervision of Jason Hickel. Within the REAL project, works on quantifying the material and labour needed to provide decent living standards for everyone. In particular, his research focus is on understanding how much labour and material usage is required for a just transition which abolishes unequal exchange. For Dr. Önder, degrowth research must go hand in hand with the radical political struggle necessary to implement it.[1]
Racing career
Kaan's motorsports career started in 2007 with TOSFED's PO Cup project and he participated over 400 races and is the 1st Turkish driver to follow whole European Rotax Max Championship season in 2010. Kaan also raced for British Super 1 Championship, Belgian Championship, BNL Series, SEEKZ (South East European Karting Championship), and many other international trophies and race events.
He is the first Turkish kart driver who holds champion title at an international level and awarded as national sportsman in 2010.
Borusan Otomotiv and Castrol Turkey started to support him during 2010.
In 2013 he raced for the Formula BMW Talent Cup series which is organized by BMW Motorsport and in 2014 he joined Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport ETCC team for the 2014 European Touring Car Cup season. During the season, he raced with team's’s BMW 320si car in the Super 2000 TC2 class.
Önder also raced in the 2015 Audi Sport TT Cup which was the inaugural season of the Audi Sport TT Cup.
References
- ^ "Kaan Onder". REAL. A Post-Growth Deal. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
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