Turkish Scientists in the USA

By Levent Ağaoğlu

06/04/2022

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ARCHAEOLOGY

Aslıhan Yener,^[12]University of Chicago archaeologist who uncovered a new source of Bronze Age Anatolian tin mines

ANTHROPLOGY

Nur Yalman,^[10]Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

ASTRONOMY

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, astronomer and astrophysicist at the University of Arizona

ARCHITECTURE

Esra Akcan, Professor of Architecture at Cornell University
Pınar Yoldaş, architect, artist and Professor at University of California San Diego
Gülru Necipoğlu, Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University

BIOLOGY

Ivet Bahar, Professor of Computational Biology at University of Pittsburgh
Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, Professor of Nutrition & Division of Biological Sciences at Harvard University
Aziz Sancar, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Sibel Adalı, Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Özalp Babaoğlu, Professor of computer science at University of Bologna
Mihri Özkan, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Meral Özsoyoglu, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
Emin Gün Sirer, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University
Osman Yaşar, Professor and chair of the computational science department at State University of New York College at Brockport^[11]
Okan Ersoy, Professor of electrical engineering and Director of Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Purdue University

ECONOMICS

Faruk Gül, Professor of Economics, Princeton University^[6]
Ali Hortaçsu, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
Murat Iyigun, Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado
Salih Neftçi, Professor of Economics at the New School University(Turkish-Iraqi origin)
Timur Kuran, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor in Islamic Studies at Duke University
Yahya M. Madra, Associate Professor of Economics at Drew University
Naci Mocan, Ourso Distinguished Chair of Economics at Louisiana State University
Tayfun Sönmez, Professor of Economics at Boston College
Dani Rodrik, professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

ENGINEERING

İlhan Aksay, Professor in Engineering and Emeritus Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University^[4]
Ali Akansu, electrical engineer and scientist
Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California
Zeynep Çelik-Butler, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Ali Erdemir, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
Fazıl Erdoğan, Professor and Dean of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University
Pınar Keskinocak, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Banu Onaral, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University
Mehmet Toner, Professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical Schooland Professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology^[7]
Sefaattin Tongay, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Arizona State University
Galip Ulsoy, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and W.C. Ford Professor
Aylin Yener, holds the Roy and Lois Chope Chair in engineering at Ohio State University
Bilge Yildiz,Professor of Nuclear Science, Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

FOLKLORE

İlhan Başgöz

HISTORY

Halil İnalcık
Ali Yaycıoğlu
Mustafa Aksakal, professor of history at Georgetown University
Esin Atıl, historian of Islamic art and curator of Islamic art at the Freer Gallery of Art
Ergun Caner, Professor of Theology and Church History
Ezel Kural Shaw, historian and wife of Stanford J. Shaw
Şükrü Hanioğlu, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Cemal Kafadar, Professor of Turkish Studies at Harvard University

LITERATURE

Merve Emre, Associate professor of American literature at Oxford University
Ahmed Cemal Eringen, Professor of continuum mechanics at Princeton University
Erdağ Göknar, Associate Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University

MEDICINE

Utkan Demirci, Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine
Alp Ikizler, nephrologist, holder of the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Özalp Özer, Professor of Management Science at the University of Texas at Dallas
Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Professor of Healthcare Risk Management at the University of Minnesota

MATERIALS SCIENCE

Servet A. Duran, Professor of Materials Science at Washington State University
Halil Güven, Dean of San Diego State University – Georgia

MATHEMATICS

Asuman Aksoy, Professor of Mathematics at Claremont McKenna College
Gunduz Caginalp, Professor of Mathematics at University of Pittsburgh
Sema Salur, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rochester
Halil Mete Soner, Professor of Financial Mathematics at ETH Zürich
Ayşe Şahin, chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright State University

NEOSURGERY

Murat Günel, Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale University

PHYSICS

Muzaffer Atac, Professor of Physics
Bülent Atalay, Professor of physics at the University of Mary Washington and the University of Virginia
Baha Balantekin, Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin
Asım Orhan Barut, Professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder^[5]
Nihat Berker, scientist, theoretical chemist, physicist and emeritus professor of physics at MIT
Taner Edis, Professor of physics at the Truman State University
Ahmet Yıldız, Associate Professor of Physics and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California
Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
Itzhak Bars, theoretical physicist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
Suha Gürsey, physicist and mathematician
Oktay Sinanoğlu, youngest full Professor in Yale’s 20th-century history
Ataç İmamoğlu, physicist

PSYCHOLOGY

Ozlem Ayduk, social psychologist at U.C. Berkeley
Peter Harzem, Professor of Psychology at Auburn University
Alev Erisir, Professor of Psychology and the Department Chair at the University of Virginia
Vamık Volkan,^[9]Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia,

SOCIOLOGY

Muzafer Sherif, Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University
Eshref Shevky, Professor of Sociology at the University of California
Zeynep Tufekci, Associate professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina
Emeritus of Manufacturing at University of Michigan
Mübeccel Belik Kıray
Behice Boran
Şerif Mardin

STATISTICS

Damla Şentürk, Professor of biostatistics in the University of California
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Associate professor of the practice in statistics at Duke University

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Serap Aksoy,
Ian F. Akyildiz, Chair Professor in Telecommunications
Ilkay Altintas, Chief data science officer at the University of California
Ali Argon, Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TECHNOLOGY

Elza Erkip, Professor and wireless technology researcher at New York University
Selda Gunsel, Vice President (VP) for Global Commercial Technology at Royal Dutch Shell
Turgay Üzer, Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology^[8]
Asuman Özdağlar, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Canan Dağdeviren, assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

TURKISH LANGUAGE

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Metin Heper
Sabri Sayarı
Üstün Ergüder

WOMEN’S STUDIES

Leila Ahmed, Professor of Women’s Studies in Religion at Harvard Divinity School^[3]

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Tamer Başar, Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elif Batuman, academic and journalist
Erhan Çinlar, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
Arif Dirlik, Professor at the University of British Columbia
Çiğdem Balım Harding, Senior lecturer at Indiana University
Umran Inan, scientist at Koç University and Stanford University
Serap Z. Tilav, US Antarctic Programfield team member; the Tilav Cirque is named after her