Tekin Dereli (November 30, 1949) is a
Turkish theoretical physicist.
Life and academic career
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
Koç University ( tr, Koç Üniversitesi) is a non-profit private university in Istanbul, Turkey. It started education in temporary buildings in İstinye in 1993, and moved to its current Rumelifeneri campus near Sarıyer in 2000. Koç University ...
.
TUBITAK honored him with TUBITAK Junior Science Price in 1982 and TUBITAK Science Price in 1996. He also was awarded prestigious Turkish prizes for science by "Sedat Simavi Trust" in 1989 and "Prof. Mustafa Parlar Foundation" in (1993).
He is a member of
Turkish Academy of Sciences (TAS) since 1993.
He is married with two children.
Research interests
His research interests are
Yang-Mills gauge theories,
supersymmetry,
supergravity
In theoretical physics, supergravity (supergravity theory; SUGRA for short) is a modern field theory that combines the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity; this is in contrast to non-gravitational supersymmetric theories such as ...
,
quaternion and
octonion
In mathematics, the octonions are a normed division algebra over the real numbers, a kind of hypercomplex number system. The octonions are usually represented by the capital letter O, using boldface or blackboard bold \mathbb O. Octonions hav ...
algebras,
spin structures, generalised theories of gravity, cosmological solutions,
integrable system
In mathematics, integrability is a property of certain dynamical systems. While there are several distinct formal definitions, informally speaking, an integrable system is a dynamical system with sufficiently many conserved quantities, or first ...
s and phase space quantisation.
References
Biography at Koc University
External links
Web page at Koc University
1949 births
Living people
People from Ankara
Middle East Technical University alumni
Academic staff of Middle East Technical University
Academic staff of Ankara University
Academic staff of Koç University
Turkish physicists
Theoretical physicists
Recipients of TÜBİTAK Science Award
METU Mustafa Parlar Foundation Science Award winners
20th-century physicists
21st-century physicists
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