Background
Arık was born in Istanbul and received her Bachelor of Science in 1969 in mathematics and physics from Istanbul University.
physicist university professor
Arık was born in Istanbul and received her Bachelor of Science in 1969 in mathematics and physics from Istanbul University.
Subsequently, she received her Master of Science in 1971 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1976 in experimental high energy physics from the University of Pittsburgh, United States.
She was a professor and head of the Experimental High Energy Physics group at the Boğaziçi University. She performed post doctoral studies at the Westfield College in University of London. In 1983, she left the university to work with Control Data Corporation for two years.
Arık subsequently became a professor at Boğaziçi University in 1988.
Between 1997 and 2000, Arık was commissioned by the government to represent Turkey at the sessions of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty held at the International Atomic Energy Agency (International Atomic Energy Agency) of the United Nations in Vienna, Austria. Arık died in the Atlasjet Flight 4203 crash on November 30, 2007.
There is a street named after her in the İlkyerleşim neighborhood of the Yenimahalle district in Ankara, Turkey.
Returning 1979 to Turkey, she became a member of faculty at Boğaziçi University. She was a member of the Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software and CAST collaborations at European Organization of Nuclear Research in Switzerland.