ACADEMIC CAREER:

EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL RECORD:

2013-Present        Chair UNESCO ICG North East Atlantic, Mediterranean and Connected seas

2012-2015            Chairman of Civil Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University

2004-Present       Director, Ocean Engineering Reaesrch Center, Middle East Technical University

2009-Present        Professor, Middle East Technical University

2000-2009            Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University

2005-2005            Consultant to Government of Maldives (11 weeks)

1999-2000            Visiting Professor, University of Southern California, USA

1993-1999            Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University

1989-1993            Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University

1979-1989            Research Assistant, Middle East Technical University

1987-1987            Visiting Scholar, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN

1978 -1979           Assistant (Part time) Middle East Technical University

POSITIONS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Chair of the Civil Engineering Department of METU, December 2012 – 2015
• Chair of the UNESCO ICG/NEAMTWS (The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the Northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas) Nov 2013 – Nov. 2017
• Director, Ocean Engineering Research Center, Middle East Technical University, since 2004
• Director, METU Sports Club since Sepember 2017
• Member of the IUGG International Tsunami Commission since 1994
• Vice Chair of the IUGG International Tsunami Commission since 2011
• Consultancy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, since 2008
• A member of the Council of the Faculty of Engineering of METU as the elected representative of Assistant Professors between Oct, 1990 and Oct., 1993,
• A member of the Council of the Faculty of Engineering of METU as the elected representative of Assoc. Professors since Nov, 1994-Nov, 1997
• Director of METU Civil Engineering Department Ocean Engineering Research Center
• Board member of International Natural Hazards Society (since 2002)
• Vice President of the Underwater Research Society May, 1994-Feb. 1998,
• General Secretary of the Turkish National Committee of Coastal Zone Management (1997-2000)