Mehmet Emin Özel

Background

Özel, Mehmet Emin was born in 1946 in Kircaali, WORLD0. Son of Ibrahim and Ümmühan Özel.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Middle East Technology U., Ankara, Turkey, 1969; Master of Science in Physics, Middle East Technology U., Ankara, Turkey, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Middle East Technology U., Ankara, Turkey, 1978; Habilitation, Middle East Technology U., Ankara, Turkey, 1983.

Career

Staff member physics department, Middle East Technology U., Ankara, 1970-1983; staff department physics, Middle East Technology U., Ankara AV Humboldt fellow, Max Planck Institute Extrater Physics, Munich, 1981-1983; Max Planck fellow, Max Planck Institute of Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany, 1983-1986; senior research associate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration-GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1986-1989; professor high energy physics, U. Çukurova, Adana, Turkey, 1989-1993; director, Space Research Center Uzaymer, Adana, 1990-1996; secretary national committee space science and technologies, Ubitek, Tubitak, Ankara, since 1991; head department space science and technologies, Marmara Research Center, Gebze, Turkey, since 1991.

Achievements

• Mehmet Emin Özel has been listed as a noteworthy Space, science, and technologies researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Founding member Tarih Vakfi (Foundation for History), Istanbul, Turkey, 1992. Fellow New York Academy Sciences, American Physical Society. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Turkish Astronomical Society, Turkish Physical Society.

Interests

• Avocations: science fiction, popularization of science.

Connections

Married Ayse Sule Cakaloglu, June 19, 1970 (divorced 1991). 1 child, Zeynep.

Father:

Ibrahim Özel

Spouse:

Ayse Sule Cakaloglu

child:

Zeynep Özel