Umran Inan - Life and Career

Life and Career

Umran Inan received his Bachelor's in 1972 and M.D. in 1973 from the Middle East Technical University. He conducted his doctoral research during four years at Stanford University, receiving his PhD in 1977 from 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 and worked there as an academician until 2009.

In 1997 he was appointed Director of Space, Telecommunications and Radio Science Laboratories (STAR) connected to the Stanford University 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, radiation belts, electromagnetic wave-particle interaction, and very low frequency radioscience. Inan has had about 50 PhD students so far.

He has been the president of Koç University 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.

Inan has over 323 refereed scientific and technical papers.

With his brother, Aziz Inan, he has authored three textbooks on electromagnetics:

• Engineering Electromagnetics (Prentice Hall 1998)
• Electromagnetic Waves (Prentice Hall 1999)
• Principles of Plasma Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Cambridge Press 2011)