Umran Inan

Ümran Savaş İnan
Born 1950
Erzincan, Turkey.
Nationality Turkey Turkish
Fields Electrical Engineering,
Institutions Koc University
Stanford University
Alma mater Middle East Technical University
Notable awards Allan V. Cox Medal of Stanford for Faculty Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research (2007)

Ümran Savaş İnan (1950 in Erzincan, Turkey) is a scientist at Koc University and Stanford University in the field of geophysics and very low frequency radioscience. He received from Stanford in 1977 under the tutelage of Robert Helliwell. Since Fall 2009, Inan has been the president of Koç University.

Life and career

Umran Inan received his Bachelor's in 1972 and M.S. in 1973 from the Middle East Technical University. He conducted his doctoral research during four years at Stanford University, receiving his PhD in 1977 from Electrical Engineering. 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 PhD 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.[1]

With his brother, Aziz Inan, he has authored three textbooks on electromagnetics:

Membership and Awards

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 NASA with group achievement award in years 1983, 1998 and 2004.

Research at Stanford

Research activities at Stanford include

References

  1. ↑ "Stanford VLF Group Database". Retrieved 2012-02-29.

External links

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