Umran Savaş İnan ( tr, Ümran Savaş İnan; born December 28, 1950) is a scientist 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 Universit ...

and

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in the field of

geophysics Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' som ...

and

very low frequency Very low frequency or VLF is the ITU designation for radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 3–30 kHz, corresponding to wavelengths from 100 to 10 km, respectively. The band is also known as the myriameter band or myriameter wave a ...

radio science One way of outlining the subject of ''radio science'' is listing the topics associated with it by authoritative bodies. Union of Radio Science International (URSI) The International Union of Radio Science has several commissions corresponding to ...

. He received his PhD from Stanford in 1977 under the tutelage of Robert Helliwell. Since Fall 2009, İnan has been the president of

Life and career

Umran Inan received his bachelor's degree in 1972 and M.S. in 1973 from the

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. The ...

. He conducted his doctoral research during four years at

, receiving his PhD in 1977 in electrical engineering. Umran Inan later joined the staff of Stanford University as research affiliate and in 1982 was appointed as assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He became associate professor in 1985 and receiving the professor title at Stanford University in 1992. In 1997 he was appointed director of Space, Telecommunications and Radio Science Laboratories (STAR) connected to the

and continued his duty here until September 2009. During his academic career at Stanford he worked in areas geophysics, near-space, ionospheric and

atmospheric physics Within the atmospheric sciences, atmospheric physics is the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere. Atmospheric physicists attempt to model Earth's atmosphere and the atmospheres of the other planets using fluid flow equations, che ...

, radiation belts, electromagnetic wave-particle interaction, and very low frequency

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

science. Inan has had about 50 PhD students so far. He has been the president of

since 2009. Currently, the research group at Stanford University is conducting observations from over 50 different spots on seven continents and also from a variety of world-orbiting satellites. He became professor emeritus at Stanford in 2011, and remains active there along with his duties at

. Inan has over 323 refereed scientific and technical papers. With his brother, Aziz İnan, he has authored three textbooks on

electromagnetics In physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge. It is the second-strongest of the four fundamental interactions, after the strong force, and it is the dominant force in the interactions of ...

:
Engineering Electromagnetics
(

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1998)
Electromagnetic Waves
(

1999) * Principles of Plasma Physics for Scientists and Engineers ( Cambridge Press 2011) The first two textbooks were then combined into a second edition, Engineering Electromagnetics and Waves, by the same two authors along with Ryan Said.

Membership and awards

Umran Inan has been active member of various organizations since 1973 and he has been awarded by many institutions so far. As a member of International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Radio Science Association, The American Physics Society, The Electromagnetic Academy, Academy of

Tau Beta Pi The Tau Beta Pi Association (commonly Tau Beta Pi, , or TBP) is the oldest engineering honor society and the second oldest collegiate honor society in the United States. It honors engineering students in American universities who have shown a ...

Sigma Xi Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society () is a highly prestigious, non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a small group of graduate students in 1886 ...

Academy and TUBA, he was also awarded by Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

with group achievement award in years 1983, 1998 and 2004.

Research at Stanford

Research activities at Stanford include *Effects of lightning on the ionosphere and magnetosphere *Precipitating electrons from the radiation belts caused by VLF waves, both natural (lightning) and manmade (VLF transmitters) *Generation of ELF/VLF waves with the

HAARP The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was initiated as an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Ag ...

facility in Alaska *Wave-particle interactions between ELF/VLF waves and energetic radiation belt particles *VLF remote sensing of ionospheric disturbances from cosmic gamma-ray sources *AWESOME ELF/VLF instrument distribution under the International Heliophysical Year *Investigation of naturally generated chorus and hiss waves in the ELF/VLF band

Inan Peak

Inan Peak Inan Peak () is a peak rising to west of Mount Kempe in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994 named after Umran Inan of Stanford University, who has conducted critic ...

rising to west of Mount Kempe in the

Royal Society Range The Royal Society Range () is a mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Mount Lister forms the highest point in this range. Mount Lister is located along the western shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koett ...

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

was named after him by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

in 1994.

References

External links

Very Low Frequency Group
webpage
AWESOME global instrument program
official website
Personal ProfileKoc University web page - biography
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