Tekin Dereli | |
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Born | November 30, 1949 75) | (age
Nationality | Turkish |
Alma mater | B.S. with High Honors, Middle East Technical University, 1971 Ph.D, Theoretical Physics, Middle East Technical University, 1976 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical Physics |
Institutions | Koç University |
Tekin Dereli (November 30, 1949) is a Turkish theoretical physicist.
He studied at Ankara Science High School and the Middle East Technical University.
He was an associate professor and a Professor of Physics at Middle East Technical University (1984–1987, 1993–2001); professor at Faculty of Science at Ankara University (1987–1993), Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Lancaster University UK (2000–2001) and since 2001, he is a professor at the department of physics at Koç University.
TÜBİTAK honored him with TÜBİTAK Junior Science Price in 1982 and TÜBITAK Science Prize in 1996. He also was awarded prestigious Turkish prizes for science by Sedat Simavi Trust in 1989 and METU Mustafa Parlar Foundation Science Award in (1993).
He is a member of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TAS) since 1993.
He is married with two children.
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.
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