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Mehmet Zeyrek

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Prof. Dr.
Mehmet Zeyrek
Vice President of Middle East Technical University
In office
28 July 2016 – 16 August 2024
President of Middle East Technical University NCC
In office
3 November 2021 – 11 September 2024
Head of Physics Department of Middle East Technical University
In office
23 January 2012 – 2 August 2016
Personal details
Born
Mehmet Zeyrek

1960 (age 64–65)
Ankara, Turkey

Mehmet Zeyrek (born 1960 in Ankara) is a Turkish high energy physicist.[1][2] [3] His research interests are experimental and phenomenological high energy physics, particle and radiation detectors and various applications of detectors. He is currently a member of the LHC CMS [4] at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland and the Belle2 experiments at the KEK Laboratory in Japan.

Education

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Mehmet Zeyrek graduated from the Department of Physics at METU in 1982, and received his master's degree in 1985 and his doctorate in 1991 from the same department.[5] He completed his doctoral studies at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland as a TÜBİTAK scholarship holder and continued his postdoctoral studies at the same laboratory. He worked as a visiting researcher at Nagoya University in Japan and as a visiting professor at Texas Tech University in the USA.[citation needed]

Career

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Mehmet Zeyrek became an assistant in the Department of Physics at METU in 1982, a lecturer in 1993, an assistant professor in 1996, an associate professor in 1998 and a professor in 2003.[6] He was a faculty board member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at METU between 1997-2001 and 2003-2009, and the head of the METU Physics Department between 2012-2016.[citation needed]

He served as Vice President responsible for research and budget at METU between 2016-2024, a member of the METU Northern Cyprus Campus Board of Directors between 2016-2021, and as the President of the METU Northern Cyprus Campus Board of Directors and the President of the Campus between 2021-2024. He also served as the Vice Chairman of the METU Teknokent Board of Directors between 2020-2024 [7]

References

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  1. ^ "METU AVESIS profile of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  2. ^ "Personal webpage of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  3. ^ "Google Scholar profile of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  4. ^ "An interview of Prof. Zeyrek". YouTube. 16 May 2023. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  5. ^ "Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Zeyrek" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  6. ^ "Academic career timeline of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  7. ^ "Linkedin profile of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.