Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz
Prof., Rector, Kadir Has University
Mrs. Durukanoğlu Feyiz graduated from the Physics Department of Istanbul University and completed her master’s in physics at the University of Wisconsin, and her Ph.D. at the Physics department of Kansas State University. She continued as an assistant professor at Istanbul Technical University, becoming an associate professor in 2006. During her work at ITU, Feyiz has held numerous positions such as Member of the Senate Accreditation Committee (2002-2006); Visiting Scientist at Kansas State University (Summer 2002); Associate Editor in Chief of ITU Bulletin (2002-2007); Visiting Assoc. Prof. of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2007-2009); Senior Researcher at Feza Gürsey Institute (2007-2009). In 2011 she became a professor at Sabancı University where she served as the Vice President, responsible for Education, International Relations, Individual and Academic Support and Summer Schools (2011-2018), as an Executive Board Member of the Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (2014-2016), and as the Chair of the Quality Assurance and Strategy Committee (2015-2018). She has been the president of Kadir Has University since 2018.
She was the only female in 1991 to receive the Ministry of Education scholarship to study abroad in the field of physics, was also a recipient of the TUBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Research Fellow Support Funding (BİDEP scholarship) and received the TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) Coursebook Translation Award (2010) and Turkish Physical Society Honor Award (2019). She is working on Mechanical, Thermodynamic, Electronic and Structural Properties of Metal Nanowires and Nanotubes.
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Cooperation Potentials: from Universities to Urban Actors | 06 Oct 2023 09:30 | 11:00 |