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Nazan Aksan
Dept of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242
nazan-aksan@uiowa.edu
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Education/ Training
University of Iowa. BS Psychology 1993
University of Wisconsin, Madison. Graduate Minor in Statistics, 1996.
University of Wisconsin, Madison. PhD Psychology, August 2001.
Additional Quantitative/ Methodological Training
Course/ Institution Year
New Methods for the Analysis of Change Conference/ Penn State 1998
Latent Growth Curve Modeling/ UNC-Chapel Hill 2003
Hierarchical Linear Modeling/ University of Connecticut-Storrs 2006
Statistics with R/ statistics.com (5 CEUs) 2013
Introduction to Programming with R / statistics.com (5 CEUs) 2013
Handling data with R / statistics.com (5 CEUs) 2013
Data Mining with R / statistics.com (5 CEUs) 2014
Statistical Software: SPSS, R, Mplus, Lisrel
Academic Positions since PhD
Title Institution Years
Post-doctoral Research Scholar University of Iowa-Iowa City 2002-2005
Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Iowa-Iowa City 2005-2007
Assistant Professor* Koc University- Istanbul Turkey 2007-2008
*Promoted to Assoc. Professor Dec 2008 w/ tenure by Higher Education Council
Associate Professor Koc University- Istanbul Turkey 2008-2010
Assistant Research Scientist University of Iowa-Iowa City 2010-2012
Associate Research Scientist University of Iowa-Iowa City 2012-2014
Research Scientist University of Iowa-Iowa City 2014-2015
Assistant Research Professor University of Iowa-Iowa City 2015-current
Grant Funding
Abbreviations: PI= Principal Investigator; Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator
Funder Role Title
Toyota Motor Company PI Measuring use and impact of in-vehicle technologies
on older driver safety
Toyota Motor Company PI Long-term monitoring of sleep quality & understanding
its impact on driving safety, exposure & driver state
KPMG Site-PI Measuring & Mitigating Unintended Vehicle
Acceleration in Younger and Older Drivers

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Funder Role Title
UI-Injury Prevention PI Evaluating efficacy of fatigue countermeasures
Research Center (CDC) to improve driving safety in shift and non-shift
healthcare workers
NIH-NIA Co-PI Predictions of driver safety in advancing age
NIH-NHLBI Scientist Real-world Driving Safety in OSA
Iowa-DOT Co-PI Diagnostic tools for identifying sleepy drivers
in the field - Phase 2
TUBITAK 1002 PI Mother-child relationship and socio-emotional
Turkish Scientific & development in early childhood
Technological Research
Council
Australian Consultant How do parenting and parent-child interactions
Research Council: impact on preschool children’s eating, physical activity
Discovery Grant habits and subsequent patterns of weight gain?
Math & Physical Sciences Co-PI Transforming mobile health systems
Funding Program- into reliable and robust medical
University of Iowa measurement instruments
Professional Recognition
A. External peer reviewer Years
Board of Editorial Consultants
Child Development 2008-2011;
2013-2016
Social Development 2016-2018
Ad hoc Reviewer 2001-current
Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Emotion,
International Journal of Behavior Development, Journal of Personality,
Merrill Palmer Quarterly, Psychological Assessment, Social Development,
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Neuropsychology,
PloS One, Geriatrics, International Journal of Pediatric Obesity,
Accident Analysis & Prevention, Journal of Ergonomics, Traffic Injury Prevention ,
Journal of Transportation Safety & Security
External Grant Reviewer
Israeli Science Foundation 2005
Health Research Board (Ireland’s NIH) 2017
Program Reviewer
Society for Research in Child Development, 2009
International Conference for Infant Studies, 2010
Driving Assessment Biannual Meeting 2011, 2013, 2015

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B. Citations
web of science google scholar
Times cited 1357 3223
citations w/o self-citation 1303
citing articles 1056
citing articles w/o self-citation 1033
average citation per item 28.27
h-index 20 33
C. Publications
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
Domain: Mental Health
2. Kochanska, G., Aksan, N. & Koenig A. (1995). A longitudinal study on the roots of preschoolers' conscience:
Committed compliance and emerging internalization. Child Development, 66, 1752-1769.
3. Aksan, N., Goldsmith, H. H., Smider, N., Essex, M., Clark, R., Hyde, J., Klein, M. & Vandell, D. (1999).
Derivation and prediction of temperamental types among preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 35, 958-
971.
10. Aksan, N. & Kochanska, G. (2004). Links between systems of inhibition from infancy to preschool years.
Child Development, 75, 1477-1490.
19. Aksan, N., Kochanska, G. & Ortmann, M. (2006). Mutually responsive orientation between parents and their
young children: Methodological advances in the science of relationships. Developmental Psychology, 42,
833-848.
26. Kochanska, G., Barry R., Aksan, N. & Boldt, L (2008). A Developmental model of maternal and child
contributions to disruptive conduct: The first six years. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49,
1220-1227.
27. Aksan, N., Goldsmith, H. H., Essex, M. & Vandell, D. L. (2009). Communicative functions of emotion in
sibling relationships. In F. Columbus (Ed.) Psychology of Family Relationships, pp. 133-158. NY, US:
NOVA.
38. Orta-Metin, I., Yagmurlu, B., Corapci, F. & Aksan, N. (2013) The meditational role of effortful control and
emotion dysregulation in the link between maternal responsiveness and Turkish preschoolers social
competency and externalizing symptoms Infant and Child Development, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/icd.1806
65. Yavuz, M, Yagmurlu, B., Corapci, F & Aksan, N (2016). Internalizing symptoms in Turkish preschoolers: Role
of temperament, parenting, and stress. Social Development http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode.12192
Domain: Health Psychology
30. McPhie, S., Skouteris, H., McCabe, M., Riccciardelli, L., Milgrom, J., Baur, L., Aksan, N. & Dell'Aquila, D.
(2011) Maternal correlates of preschool child eating behaviours and body mass index : a cross-sectional
study. International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, 6, 476-480.
49. Wu, YH, Aksan, N, Rizzo, M., Stangl, E, Zhang, X, & Bentler R (2014). Ecological validity of listening effort
measures: Car simulator vs. simple dual-task paradigm. Ear and Hearing, 35, 623-632.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000079
51. Hasan, SS, Chipara, O, Wu, YH & Aksan, N (2014). Evaluating auditory contexts and their impacts on hearing
aid outcomes with mobile phones. Proceedings of 8th
International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Technologies for Healthcare. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254952
67. Tippin, J., Aksan, N., Dawson J, Anderson, S & Rizzo, M (2016). Sleep remains disturbed in obstructive sleep
apnea patients treated with positive airway pressure: a three-month cohort study using continuous actigraphy.
Sleep Medicine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2016.07.008

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Domain: Biology & Behavior
20. Anderson, S. W., Aksan, N., Kochanska, G., Damasio, H., Wisnowski, J., & Afifi, A. (2007). The earliest
expression of focal damage to human prefrontal cortex. Cortex, 6, 806-816.
52. Kochanska, G., Brock, RL, Chen, K, Aksan, N & Anderson SW (2014). Paths from early mother-child and
father-child relationships to externalizing behavior problems in children differing in electrodermal reactivity:
A longitudinal study from age 2 to 10. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, DOI: 10.1007/s10802-014-
9938.
55. Chen, K, Aksan, N., Anderson, SW, Grafft A & Chapleau (2014). Habituation of parasympathetic-mediated
heart rate responses to recurring acoustic startle. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1288. PMCID: PMC4238409
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01288
Domain: Driving Safety in at-risk populations
32. Aksan, N., Anderson, S., Dawson, J., Uc, Ergun, Johnson, AM & Rizzo, M. (2012). Cognitive functioning
predicts older driver safety on road tests one and two years later. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,
60, 99-105.
34. Anderson, S., Aksan, N., Dawson, J., Uc, Ergun, Johnson, AM. & Rizzo, M. (2012). Neuropsychological
Assessment of Driving Safety Risk in Older Adults With and Without Neurologic Disease. Journal of
Experimental and Clinical Neuropsychology, 34, 895-905.
48. McDonald, A.D., Lee, J.D., Aksan, N., Dawson, J.D., Tippin, J., & Rizzo, M. (2014). The Language of
Driving: Advantages and Applications of Symbolic Data Reduction for Naturalistic Driving Data Analysis.
Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board. PMCID: PMC4507408
56. Aksan, N., Anderson, S., Dawson, J., Uc, E., Johnson, AM. & Rizzo, M. (2015). Cognitive functioning
predicts multiple facets of older drivers’ on-road safety. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 75, 236-244.
PMCID: PMC4386614 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2014.12.007
63. Aksan, N., Sager, L., Hacker S., Marini, R., Dawson, J. Anderson, S. & Rizzo, M. (2016). Forward Collision
Warning: Clues to optimal timing of advisory warnings. SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety,
4 (1), http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-1439
64. Aksan, N., Hacker S., Sager, L., Dawson, J. Anderson, S. & Rizzo, M. (2016). Correspondence between
simulator and on-road drive performance: Implications for assessment of driving safety. Geriatrics, 1, 8,
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics1010008
Classroom Teaching Experience
Note: Methods/Statistics courses are marked with*
Course Enrollment Institution/ Year(s)
1. Undergraduate Courses
Child Psychology 220 UWisconsin-Madison/ 1994
*Introduction to Statistics 30 UWisconsin-Madison/ 1995, 1996
*Evaluating Psychological Research 32 University of Iowa/ 2005
Introduction to Child Development 240 University of Iowa / 2006
Abnormal Psychology 30-35 Koc University/ 2007, 2008, 2009
Development & Psychopathology 30 Koc University/ 2010

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Course Enrollment Institution/ Year(s)
2. Graduate Courses
*Design/Analysis of Experiments 30-35 UWisconsin-Madison/ 1997
*Research Methods I 10-15 Koc University/ 2007, 2008, 2009
*Testing & Measurement 10-15 Koc University/ 2008, 2009
Emotion & Motivation 10-15 Koc University/ 2008, 2009, 2010
Mentoring/ Thesis Supervision
Thesis Topic/ Role Student Name (Degree) Institution/ Year
Driver Sleepiness Measurement/ Bryan Fiscus/ University of Iowa/ 2012
Honor’s thesis advisor (Bachelor-Engineering)
Mental Health & Development/ Doli Aseo Koc University/ 2009
MA Thesis Advisor Senay Cebioglu,
Irem Orta-Metin & Hilal Sen Koc University/ 2010
Oya Kurum & Banu Acarlar Koc University/ 2011
Mental Health & Development/ Melis Yavuz Koc University/ 2012
MA Thesis Committee Member Duygu Arslan-Yalcin & Bogazici University/ 2009
Akif Yerlioglu Bogazici University/ 2010
Mixed Models/ Elizabeth Mullen/ University of Iowa/ 2006
Statistical Consultant (MS/ Clinical Psychology)
Structural Equation Modeling/ Elizabeth Mullen/ University of Iowa/ 2013
Statistical Consultant (PhD/ Clinical Psychology)
Emotion Regulation & Driving/ Kuan Chen University of Iowa/ 2015
PhD Thesis Committee Member (PhD/ Neuroscience)
Staff supervision*
Institution Year Team size
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1994-2001 5-7 assistants per semester
University of Iowa 2002- 2007 10-14 assistants per semester
Koc University; 2007 to 2010 20 undergrad independent
study students per academic year
University of Iowa 2010-current 4-9 professional staff per semester
*supervision = Protocol specification for data collection, behavioral evaluation; experimental design,
statistical analyses; report write-up, regulatory approvals/ compliance for professional staff,
undergraduate/graduate students
Academic (Institutional/ Departmental) Service
Institution Role Year
Koc University Academic Advisor: 2007-2010
Advise 20 psychology undergraduates every semester
on course, research & internship selection
Koc University Graduate student advisor: 2009-2010
Budget allocation, liaising with graduate school,
PhD program development
University of Iowa Search Committee for Director of 2015-current
National Advanced Driving Simulator (UI)
Statistical Consultancy for Neurology Faculty