Prof. Aral Okay
Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences and
Faculty of Mines, Department of Geology
Maslak 34469
Personal
Date and place of birth: 6th January 1953,
Marital status: Married
with two children – Nilüfer and Yasemin
Phone No.: (90)
212 285 62 08 office
Fax No.: (90) 212 285 62 10
email okay@itu.edu.tr
Education
1965-1971 Secondary
school,
1974-1976 B.Sc.,
Geology,
1976-1980 Ph.D, University of Cambridge, Department of Mineralogy and
Petrology
Professional Experience
1980-1983 Geologist,
Geological Survey of
1983- Lecturer,
Department of Geology,
1998- Lecturer,
Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences,
Administrative Experience
1998-2001 Head
of the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences,
2002- Head
of the Division of Solid Earth Sciences, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Research visits abroad
(more than one month)
1986 Department
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California,
1991 Department
of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,
1992 Institute
of Experimental
Chernogolovka,
1993 Department
of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,
1994-1995 Institute für Mineralogie,
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1996 École Normale
Supérieure, Paris, France
1997 Department of Earth
Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, England.
1999 Departement des
Sciences de
2006 -2007 Department
of Earth Sciences, University of California
Awards
1994 Alexander
von Humboldt fellowship
1996 Invite
professor, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France,
1996- Member
of the Turkish
2002 TÜBITAK
science prize
2006 Fulbright
fellowship
2009 Fellow,
Mineralogical Society of America
Editorship
2005- ARI,
Bulletin of the
1999- Tectonophysics
– member of editorial board
1992- Turkish
Journal of Earth Sciences – member of editorial board
Membership
Turkish
Languages
Turkish mother tongue, fluent in English and German
Courses thaught
Physical Geology, Structural Geology, Tectonics,
Geological Mapping, Subsurface geology, Active tectonics, Metamorphic
Petrography and Petrology, Mineralogy, Optical Mineralogy, Crystallography,
Regional Geology, Geology of Turkey