Curriculum Vitae: Ayşe Erzan

Date and place of birth 2 May 1949, Ankara

Marital Status Married

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Present positions and address:

Fellow (October 2004-July 2005)

Collegium Budapest

1014 Budapest

Szentharomsag u.2

Hungary

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Faculty of Sciences and Letters

Istanbul Technical University

Maslak, Istanbul 80626

Senior Researcher,

Feza Gürsey Institute

Çengelköy, Istanbul 81220

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Research interests

Non-equilibrium phase transitions and critical phenomena, disordered systems, self-organization in complex nonlinear systems, with application to earthquakes, evolution, the physics of polymers and proteins. Networks theory, with application to gene expression networks.

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Academic degrees, fellowships, distinctions

Laureate of the L’Oreal-UNESCO “Women in Science” Prize – Europe, 2003

Member, Turkish Academy of Sciences (1995 - )

Recipient of the TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) Science Prize, together with Mehmet Erbudak, 1997

International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Associate (1986-1990), Senior Associate (1990-97)

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1985-87)

Ph. D. in Physics 1976, SUNY at Stonybrook, N.Y., USA (Ph. D. Thesis: "Approximate Methods in Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena" (with Prof. George Stell)

BA in Physics 1970, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA

(Magna cum Laude)

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Editorships, offices held etc.

Associate Editor of European Physical Journal B (1998 -2003)

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Statistical Physics (2002- )

Associate Editor of ARI, Istanbul Technical University Bulletin (2002 - )

IUPAP (C3) Commission on for Statistical Physics, member 1996-2002

Steering Committee for Statphys 21 (Cancun), member

Steering Committee for Statphys 22 (Bangalore), member

Academy Council of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (1999 and 2002- ), member

Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, member, (2002 - )

Faculty Executive Council, Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Istanbul Technical University (1993-1995), member

Vice-chairperson, Department of Physics, ITU (2000 - 2003)

Program Committee of the Istanbul Technical University Statistical Physics Days, member

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Membership in scholarly societies

American Physical Society

French Physical Society

Turkish Physical Society

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Positions held

University Fellowship and Research Assistantship, SUNY at Stonybrook (1970-1976)

Instructor, METU, Ankara (1976-1977)

Assistant, Chair of Statistical Mechanics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Istanbul Technical University (October 1977- July 1982)

Assistant, Theorical Physics Department, Geneva University, Switzerland (1981-1982)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University, Porto, Portugal (1982- 1985)

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Physics Department (with Prof. S. Grossmann) Marburg University, Marburg, Germany (1985-1987)

Research Scientist, Solid State Lab, Groningen University, Netherlands (FOM researcher) (1987- 1990)

Assistant Professor ITU Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Physics Department (1990- 1991)

Associate Professor ITU, Faculty of Sciences and Letters,Physics Department (1991-1996)

Professor ITU Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Physics Department (1996-..)

Researcher, TUBITAK MAM, Gebze (1991-1997)

Researcher, Feza Gursey Institute (1997- ..)

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Institutes visited for extended periods

Visiting Scientist, Theoretical Physics Department, Royal Institue of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (February 1981- June 1981)

Visiting Researcher, Delft Technical University, Technical Physics Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands (Fondamenteel Onderzoek for Materie - FOM) (July 1981)

Visiting Researcher, ICTP (SISSA), Trieste, Italy (August-September 1981)

Visitor, Physics Department, Rome University, Italy (February 1990)

Researcher, Solid State Group, ICTP Trieste (April 1990- August 1990)

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (August 1995)

Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bombay, India (February 1999)

Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India (February 1999)

Collegium Budapest (October 2004-July 2005)

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Meetings organized

1. Miniworkshop on Nonlinearity: Fractals, pattern formation, ICTP, Italy. (with L. Pietronero ve H. Cerdeira) (11 June -6 July 1991)

1. 2. "Recent Advances in Statistical Physics,” Summer School Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey (with O. Pekcan) (25 July -6 August 1993)

2. 1^st Istanbul Technical University Statistical Physics Days (with A.N. Berker) (14-15 July 1994)

3. 2^nd Istanbul Technical University Statistical Physics Days (13-14 July 1995)

4. 3^rd Istanbul Technical University Statistical Physics Days (18-19 July 1996)

5. Workshop on Vortex Dynamics and Trubulence Modeling (with Alp Eden, E.S. Suhubi and H. Ors) (2-6 September 1996)

6. Research Semester on Interface Dynamics and Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions, Gursey Institute, Istanbul (with Alp Eden and Mete Soner) (15 February-15 June 1998)

7. Research Workshop on Interface Dynamics and Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions, Gursey Institute and the Istanbul Technical University (with Alp Eden and Mete Soner) (13-17 April 1998)

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