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Curriculum Vitae: Ayþe Erzan

 

Date and place of birth 2 May 1949, Ankara

Marital Status Married (to Orhan Silier)

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Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Faculty of Sciences and Letters

Istanbul Technical University

Maslak, Istanbul 34 469

 

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Research interests

 

Non-equilibrium phase transitions and critical phenomena, disordered systems, self-organization in complex nonlinear systems, with application to earthquakes, evolution, the physics of polymers and proteins. Networks theory, with application to gene expression networks. Spectral renormalization group theory.

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Academic degrees, fellowships, distinctions

 

Laureate of the L’Oreal-UNESCO “Women in Science” Prize – Europe, 2003

Rammal Medalist, 2010

 

Founding Member, Bilim Akademisi (Science Academy, Turkey) (2011 - )


Former Member, Turkish Academy of Sciences (associate 1995 -1997, full 1997 - 2011)


Member, Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (2005 -)


Member, TWAS, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (2007-)


Member, Academia Europaea (2011 - )

 

Recipient of the TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) Science Prize, together with Mehmet Erbudak, 1997

 

International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Associate (1986-1990), Senior Associate (1990-97)

 

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1985-87)

 

Ph. D. in Physics 1976, SUNY at Stonybrook, N.Y., USA (Ph. D. Thesis: "Approximate Methods in Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena" (with Prof. George Stell)

 

BA (Magna cum Laude) in Physics 1970, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA


 

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Editorships, offices held etc.

 

Associate Editor of European Physical Journal B (1998 -2003)

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Statistical Physics (2002- 2007)

Associate Editor of ARI, Istanbul Technical University Bulletin (2002 - 2007 )

 

IUPAP (C3) Commission on for Statistical Physics, member 1996-2002

Steering Committee for Statphys 21 (Cancun), member

Steering Committee for Statphys 22 (Bangalore), member

Steering Committee for Statphys 23 (Genoa), member

 

Academy Council of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (1999 and 2002-2008 ), member

 

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, member, (2002 -2005)

 

Faculty Executive Council, Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Istanbul Technical University (1993-1995), member

 

Vice-chairperson, Department of Physics, ITU (2000 - 2003)

 

Program Committee of the Istanbul Technical University Statistical Physics Days, member


ALLEA Standing Committee for Science and Ethics, member (2003-2010)

TÜBA Ethics Committee, member (2006-2008)

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Membership in scholarly societies

 

American Physical Society

Turkish Physical Society

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Positions held

 

University Fellowship and Research Assistantship, SUNY at Stonybrook (1970-1976)

 

Instructor, METU, Ankara (1976-1977)

 

Assistant, Chair of Statistical Mechanics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Istanbul Technical University (October 1977- July 1982)

 

Assistant, Theorical Physics Department, Geneva University, Switzerland (1981-1982)

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University, Porto, Portugal (1982- 1985)

 

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Physics Department (with Prof. S. Grossmann) Marburg University, Marburg, Germany (1985-1987)

 

Research Scientist, Solid State Lab, Groningen University, Netherlands (Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie) (1987- 1990)

 

Assistant Professor ITU Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Physics Department (1990- 1991)

 

Associate Professor ITU, Faculty of Sciences and Letters,Physics Department (1991-1996)

 

Professor ITU, Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Physics Department (1996-..)

 

Researcher, TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Marmara Research Center, Gebze (1991-1997)

 

Researcher, TUBITAK – Bosphorus University Feza Gursey Basic Research Institute (1997- 2008)


Fellow, Collegium Budapest (October 2004-July 2005)


Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey (2008-2009)

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Institutes visited for extended periods

 

Visiting Scientist, Theoretical Physics Department, Royal Institue of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (February 1981- June 1981)

 

Visiting Researcher, Delft Technical University, Technical Physics Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands (Fondamenteel Onderzoek for Materie - FOM) (July 1981)

 

Visiting Researcher, ICTP (SISSA), Trieste, Italy (August-September 1981)

 

Visitor, Physics Department, Rome University, Italy (February 1990)

 

Researcher, Solid State Group, ICTP Trieste (April 1990- August 1990)

 

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (August 1995)

 

Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bombay, India (February 1999)

 

Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India (February 1999)

 

Service de Pysique Theorique, CEN Saclay, France (June 2007)


Lecturer at the Escola de CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, July 2008

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Meetings organized

 

  1. Miniworkshop on Nonlinearity: Fractals, pattern formation, ICTP, Italy. (with L. Pietronero ve H. Cerdeira) (11 June -6 July 1991)

 

  1. 2. "Recent Advances in Statistical Physics,” Summer School Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey (with O. Pekcan) (25 July -6 August 1993)

 

  1. 1st Istanbul Technical University Statistical Physics Days (with A.N. Berker) (14-15 July 1994)

 

  1. 2nd Istanbul Technical University Statistical Physics Days (13-14 July 1995)

 

  1. 3rd Istanbul Technical University Statistical Physics Days (18-19 July 1996)

 

  1. Workshop on Vortex Dynamics and Trubulence Modeling (with Alp Eden, E.S. Suhubi and H. Ors) (2-6 September 1996)

 

  1. Research Semester on Interface Dynamics and Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions, Gursey Institute, Istanbul (with Alp Eden and Mete Soner) (15 February-15 June 1998)

 

  1. Research Workshop on Interface Dynamics and Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions, Gursey Institute and the Istanbul Technical University (with Alp Eden and Mete Soner) (13-17 April 1998)


  1. Workshop on New Directions in Complex Systems, Splendid Palas Hotel, Büyükada, Istanbul, Turkey (with I. Kondor, J.P.-Eckmann, L.Pietronero) (3-9 September 2006).

 

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