Former Faculty
![]() Served from 2018 to 2020 CV |
After graduating from the Department of Engineering Physics, Ankara University in 1969 he worked as a research scientist at Ankara Nuclear Research Center until 1977. During the period of 1972-1973 he has been a research staff for a year at Birmingham University (UK) in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. After 1977 he has served for 3 years as a lecturer at the Middle East Technical University and then he went to Durham University (UK) in 1980, where he worked as a research assistant and at the same time completed his PhD in 1984. He continued to work at the Durham University in a postdoctoral research capacity until September 1985. In 1985 he joined the General Electric Co. as a semiconductor laser group leader at the Hirst Research Centre, London. In September 1988 he started to work at UMIST (Manchester) as a project coordinator. Following his return to Turkey in 1990, he first worked at Gaziantep University and later joined the Marmara Research Centre-TUBİTAK as head of the Energy Department in 1992. In 1998 he was appointed as a professor at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul and worked as Head of Physics Department until 2004. Following his early retirement he was appointed as an associate director to UNIDO-International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies in 2005, where he later served as the director of the centre until 2008. In the same year he joined Halic University as the Rector of the university and worked until 2010. At the same year Dr. Ture established his own company ARENTEK (Advanced RENewable TEChnologies and continued his research until 2014. Dr. Ture worked as a full-time professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at MEF University from 2018 to 2020. Research Interests: Physical electronics, semiconductor devices, MOS integrated circuits, radiation detectors, optical communication systems, lasers, photovoltaic devices, renewable energies, hydrogen energy, fuel cells. |
![]() Served from 2014 to 2020 CV |
Ahmet Serdar Tan Assist. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Serdar Tan received his BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2003, and his PhD degree on telecommunications from Bilkent University in 2009. Between 2009-2010 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden on coherent fiber optical communications. In 2011, Dr. Tan joined the R&D department of Turk Telekom as team leader where he participated and lead EU and TÜBİTAK funded R&D projects on telecommunications. Dr. Tan is the founder and CEO of the R&D company Gradus Technologies focusing on 4G/5G technologies and ICT R&D consultancy. Dr. Tan also holds the official patent agent degree of Turkish Patent Institute. Dr. Tan worked as a full-time assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at MEF University from 2014 to 2020. Research Interests: Wireless Communications, 4G/5G, Software Defined Networks, Error Correction Coding, Synchronization for Coherent Fiber Optical Communications, Video Communications. Ph.D.: Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2009. |