Umran Inan received his Bachelor"s in 1972 and Master of Surgery in 1973 from the Middle East Technical University. He conducted his doctoral research during four years at Stanford University, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 1977 from Electrical Engineering.
He received from Stanford in 1977 under the tutelage of Robert Helliwell. Since Fall 2009, Inan has been the president of Koç University. Umran Inan later joined the staff of Stanford University as Research Affiliate and in 1982 was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
He became associate professor in 1985 and receiving the professor title at Stanford University in 1992.
In 1997 he was appointed Director of Space, Telecommunications and Radio Science Laboratories (STAR) connected to the Stanford University and continued his duty here until September 2009. During his academic career at Stanford he worked in areas geophysics, near-space, ionospheric and atmospheric physics, radiation belts, electromagnetic wave-particle interaction, and very low frequency radioscience.
Inan has had about 50 Doctor of Philosophy students so far. He has been the president of Koç University since 2009.
Currently, the research group at Stanford University is conducting observations from over 50 different spots on seven continents and also from a variety of world-orbiting satellites.
He became Professor Emeritus at Stanford in 2011, and remains active there along with his duties at Koç University. Inan has over 323 refereed scientific and technical papers. Engineering Electromagnetics (Prentice Hall 1998)
Electromagnetic Waves (Prentice Hall 1999)
Principles of Plasma Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Cambridge Press 2011)
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Research activities at Stanford include
Effects of lightning on the ionosphere and magnetosphere
Precipitating electrons from the radiation belts caused by VLF waves, both natural (lightning) and manmade (VLF transmitters)
Generation of Eyes Lips Face/VLF waves with the HAARP facility in Alaska
Wave-particle interactions between Eyes Lips Face/VLF waves and energetic radiation belt particles
VLF remote sensing of ionospheric disturbances from cosmic gamma-ray sources
AWESOME Eyes Lips Face/VLF instrument distribution under the International Heliophysical Year
Investigation of naturally generated chorus and hiss waves in the Eyes Lips Face/VLF band.
Umran İnan has been active member of various organizations since 1973 and he has been awarded by many institutions so far. As a member of International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Radio Science Association, The American Physics Society, The Electromagnetic Academy, Academy of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi Academy and TUBA, he was also awarded by Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration with group achievement award in years 1983, 1998 and 2004.
Umran İnan has been active member of various organizations since 1973 and he has been awarded by many institutions so far.
