Mehmet Zeyrek
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Zeyrek | |
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| 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 2012–2016 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mehmet Zeyrek 1960 (age 63–64) 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 at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland and the Belle2 experiments at the KEK Laboratory in Japan.
Education
[edit]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 [4]. 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.
Career
[edit]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 [5]. He was a faculty board member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at METU and the head of the METU Physics Department between 2012-2016.
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 President of the METU Technopolis Board of Directors between 2020-2024 [6]
References
[edit]- ^ "METU AVESIS profile of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "Personal webpage of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "Google Scholar profile of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Zeyrek" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "Academic career timeline of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "Linkedin profile of Prof. Zeyrek". Retrieved 2024-12-22.