List of Turkish Americans - Academics

Academics

• Kamer Daron Acemoğlu, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal.
• Taner Akçam, University of Minnesota professor, historian specializing in the Armenian Genocide
• İlhan Aksay, Professor, Princeton University
• Yasemin Aksoy, an associate professor of operations management at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans and the founding director of the Tulane Consortium for Supply Chain Management
• Özalp Babaoğlu, a professor of computer science at University of Bologna.
• Ciğdem Balım
• Asım Orhan Barut, University of Colorado-Boulder physicist
• Aydin Y. Durgunoglu, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
• Özlem KahyaoĞlu Equils, Dr., researcher
• Faruk Gül, Professor of Economics, Princeton University
• Dr. Murat Günel, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
• Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
• M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
• Alp Ikizler, nephrologist, currently holding the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• Cem Kaner
• Merve Kavakçı, current George Washington University Professor and former Fazilet Party Parliamentarian exiled from Turkey for violating the Public Head Scarf Ban
• Comert Kural, Scientist
• Hasan Özbekhan
• Hasan Pirkul, Dean of the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas
• Mehmet Toner, world renowned cryobiologist, professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
• Turgay Üzer, Georgia Institute of Technology Physicist
• Vamık Volkan, Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
• Nur Yalman, octolingual Harvard University Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
• Osman Yaşar, a professor and chair of the computational science (CPS) department at State University of New York (SUNY) College at Brockport.
• K. Aslıhan Yener, University of Chicago Archaeologist who uncovered a new source of Bronze Age Anatolian tin mines
• Cagan Hakki Sekercioglu, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Utah one of most cited 1% of scientists in the past decade in ecology and environmental science. In 2011, Sekercioglu was named Scientist of the Year by a Turkish media consortium and was recognized as one of National Geographic's 14 uniquely gifted Emerging Explorers.