Background
Dereli, Tekin was born on November 30, 1949 in Ankara, Turkey. Son of Abdulhamit and Nilufer (Alp) Dereli.
Dereli, Tekin was born on November 30, 1949 in Ankara, Turkey. Son of Abdulhamit and Nilufer (Alp) Dereli.
Bachelor of Science, Middle East Technology University, Ankara, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Middle East Technology University, Ankara, 1976.
He was an associate professor and a Professor of Physics at Middle East Technical University (1884–1987, 1993–2001). Professor at Faculty of Science at Ankara University (1987–1993), Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Lancaster University United Kingdom (2000–2001) and since 2001, he is a professor at the department of physics at Koc University. TUBITAK honored him with TUBITAK Junior Science Price in 1982 and TUBITAK Science Price in 1996.
He also was awarded prestigious Turkish prizes for science by "Sedat Simavi Trust" in 1989 and "Professor
Mustafa Parlar Foundation" in (1993). His research interests are Yang-Mills gauge theories, supersymmetry, supergravity, quaternion and octonion algebras, spin structures, generalised theories of gravity, cosmological solutions, integrable systems and phase space quantisation.
Lieutenant artillery, Polatli-Ankara, Turkey, 1976. Member Turkish Academy of Sciences, Turkish Physics Foundation (executive board since 1987).
Married Gulay Erkan, February 5, 1972. Children: Cem, Nazli.