Tekin Dereli

Tekin Dereli
Tekin Dereli
Born	November 30, 1949 (age 75); Ankara, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Alma mater	B.S. with High Honors, Middle East Technical University, 1971 ; Ph.D, Theoretical Physics, Middle East Technical University, 1976
	Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical Physics
Institutions	Koç University

Tekin Dereli (November 30, 1949) is a Turkish theoretical physicist.

Life and academic career

He studied at Ankara Science High School and the Middle East Technical University.

He was an associate professor and a Professor of Physics at Middle East Technical University (1984–1987, 1993–2001); professor at Faculty of Science at Ankara University (1987–1993), Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Lancaster University UK (2000–2001) and since 2001, he is a professor at the department of physics at Koç University.

TÜBITAK honored him with TÜBITAK Junior Science Price in 1982 and TÜBITAK Science Prize in 1996. He also was awarded prestigious Turkish prizes for science by Sedat Simavi Trust in 1989 and Mustafa Parlar Foundation Science Award in (1993).

He is a member of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TAS) since 1993.

He is married with two children.

Research interests

His research interests are Yang-Mills gauge theories, supersymmetry, supergravity, quaternion and octonion algebras, spin structures, generalised theories of gravity, cosmological solutions, integrable systems and phase space quantisation.