ITU Scientists in TÜBA-GEBİP Awards

“TÜBA Awards” consisting of the TÜBA-GEBİP (Outstanding Young Scientist) and TÜBA-TESEP (Authored Scientific Book) have been announced. Two scientists from ITU were awarded the 2022 Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.

“TÜBA Awards” consisting of TÜBA-GEBİP (Outstanding Young Scientist) and TÜBA-TESEP (Authored Scientific Book) organized under the auspices of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey have been given. Two of our academics were awarded in the Engineering category.

ITU Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihan Bayındır received an award in the field of hydraulics, while Faculty of Chemical-Metallurgical Engineering, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering faculty member Dr. Cem Örnek received an award in the field of materials and corrosion sciences.

TÜBA-GEBİP Awards have been given since 2001 to outstanding young scientists working in the fields of nature, engineering, health sciences and social sciences to continue their scientific studies in Turkey, to form their own working groups, and to reward and encourage internationally qualified projects and publications originating from Turkey. The awards will be presented by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to their owners at the ceremony to be held at the Presidential Complex.

About Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihan Bayındır

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihan Bayındır completed his B.Sc. degree, with honors rank, at Boğaziçi University’s Department of Civil Engineering in 2007, and his M.Sc. degree in Ocean Engineering with a minor in Mathematics at the University of Delaware in 2009. He received another M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology with a minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the International Collaboration Board of the “Future Circular Collider” (FCC) project of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) since 2017. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bayındır currently works at ITU Department of Civil Engineering and conducts research in various fields such as coastal sciences and engineering, as well as nonlinear waves, vibration and signal analysis, hydraulics, underwater acoustics, synthetic aperture radar-sonar imaging, numerical modeling in the field of engineering mechanics under the general framework of marine electronics.

About Asst. Prof. Dr. Cem Örnek

Dr. Örnek completed his B.Sc. in Surface Treatment Technologies and Materials Engineering at the University of Aalen, and his Ph.D. in Corrosion and Corrosion Protection at the Department of Materials, University of Manchester. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Manchester between 2015-2016 and at Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, between 2016-2020. Örnek, who has outputs accepted by the international scientific community and industry on understanding and preventing the corrosion behavior of stainless steel and aluminum alloys, developed new test methods on hydrogen embrittlement in materials that have not been understood for more than 140 years. He currently works at ITU Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.