Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör is a Turkish

Turkish people

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 geologist

Geologist

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. He is currently on the faculty at Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul Technical University is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third oldest technical university dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey...

, Department of Geological Engineering. He got his PhD at the State University of New York, Albany in 1982. He also writes weekly popular science columns in center-left daily Cumhuriyet

Cumhuriyet

Cumhuriyet is a centre-left Turkish daily newspaper, founded on May 7, 1924 by journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu. Based in Istanbul, it has been situated since October 17, 2005 in Mecidiyeköy. Cumhuriyet was the last newspaper to leave the old press district Cağaloğlu...

. He is married with one child.

Since 2004, Professor Şengör is a (foreign) member of The American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society

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 and United States National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

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External links

• Faculty page in Turkish Not a good link.
• Biography in Turkish

Universities

• State University of New York At Albany, USA - MS, PhD
• Collège de France, France - adjunct professor
• Oxford University, England - adjunct professor
• Caltech, USA - adjunct professor
• Salzburg Lodron-Paris, Austria - adjunct professor
• Istanbul Technical University
  Istanbul Technical University
  Istanbul Technical University is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third oldest technical university dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey...
  
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• http://www.tuba.gov.tr/anasayfa/tr/makale-89-Prof-Dr-AM-Celal-ENGOR-Yer-Bilimleri