Celâl Sengör#
| Membership Number: | 920 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1992 Professor of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- 1989 Visiting Research Fellow of the Royal Society in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
- 1986 - 1992 Reader, Department of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- 1984 - 1985 Visiting Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, USA
- 1982 PhD, State University of New York, USA
- 1981 - 1986 Lecturer, Department of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- 1979 Master’s degree, State University of New York, USA
- 1978 Bachelor’s degree, State University of New York, USA
- 1975 - 1976 Research Assistant in Tectonics and Regional Geology, University of Houston, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Formation of the continents
- Tectonics
- Earthquake research
- Plate tectonics of Asia
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Mary C. Rabbitt Award from the Geological Society of America
- 2012 Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2010 Gustav Steinmann Medal of the Geological Union
- 2001 - 2002 Gordon W. Moore Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, USA
- 2000 Member of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Bigsby Medal, Geological Society of London
- 1994 Member of the Société Géologique de France
- 1990 Honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society
- 1988 Fellow of the Geological Society of America
- 1988 Honorary doctorate from the Université de Neuchatel
- 2005 President of the Earth Sciences Society of Turkey
- 2001 - 2002 Chairman of the History of Geology Division of the Geological Society of America
- Foreign member of the American Philosophical Society, the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences
