Celâl Sengör#


Celâl Sengör
Membership Number:920
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES
Elected:1990
Main Country of Residence:TURKEY




Present and Previous Positions
  • Since 1992 Professor of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
  • 1989 Visiting Research Fellow of the Royal Society in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
  • 1986 - 1992 Reader, Department of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
  • 1984 - 1985 Visiting Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, USA
  • 1982 PhD, State University of New York, USA
  • 1981 - 1986 Lecturer, Department of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
  • 1979 Master’s degree, State University of New York, USA
  • 1978 Bachelor’s degree, State University of New York, USA
  • 1975 - 1976 Research Assistant in Tectonics and Regional Geology, University of Houston, USA


Fields of Scholarship
  • Formation of the continents
  • Tectonics
  • Earthquake research
  • Plate tectonics of Asia

Honours and Awards
  • 2017 Mary C. Rabbitt Award from the Geological Society of America
  • 2012 Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 2010 Gustav Steinmann Medal of the Geological Union
  • 2001 - 2002 Gordon W. Moore Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, USA
  • 2000 Member of the US National Academy of Sciences
  • 1999 Bigsby Medal, Geological Society of London
  • 1994 Member of the Société Géologique de France
  • 1990 Honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society
  • 1988 Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • 1988 Honorary doctorate from the Université de Neuchatel
  • 2005 President of the Earth Sciences Society of Turkey
  • 2001 - 2002 Chairman of the History of Geology Division of the Geological Society of America
  • Foreign member of the American Philosophical Society, the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences


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