Professional Activities:
1970-
: Member of the Turkish Chamber of Chemical Engineers
1978-1981 : Member of the Consultative Committee to Turkish
Atomic Energy Commission.
1982
: Visiting Scientist, Grenoble Nuclear Research Center, France
1982-1983 : Fulbright Research Associate at the University
of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
1983-1989 : Member of the Macromolecular Research Unit,
Scientific and Technical Research Council of
Turkey (TUBITAK).
1984-1987 : Consultant and Advisor to
Ballistic Research Center, TUBITAK, Ankara
1984- : Member of the “Glass, Ceramics, and Related
Materials Working Group”,
International Council of
Museums, ICOM, Rome
1987-1993 : Director of TU-ARTIFACTS, NATO Science for
Stability Project
1988 : Director of the NATO Advanced Study
Institute on “Advanced Methods of Determination of
Crosslinking & Scission in
Polymers and their,
Effect on Mechanical
Properties” 4-
16September, Antalya, Turkey
1988
: Member of the
State Planning Organization`s Special Commission on
Plastics
1989 : Member of the “Working Party on Molecular
Characterisation of Commercial
Polymers”,
(IUPAC), England
1989
: Organizer and lecturer of one week industrial course on
“Characterization of
Plastic Materials by
Chemical, Physical and
Mechanical Methods”,
SEGEM, Ankara
1989 : Consultant to International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) on “Transfer of Radiation Technology
to Developing Countries”, Delft, Holland
1989 :
Expert and Advisor to Gamma Irradiation Center, Tehran, Iran
1991 : Organizer and lecturer of one week workshop
on “Causes of Degradation and Principles of
Conservation of Archaeological Artifacts” Hittite Museum, Ankara
1991-
: Member of the Editorial Board of Turkish Journal of Chemistry (former
Doga)
1991 : Lecturer of the International Training
Course on “Radiation Sterilization” organized by IAEA,
Ankara
1992 : Chairman of the Session: “Radiation Curing
of Polymers”, 8th International Meeting on Radiation
Processing,
13-18 September, Beijing, China
1992-1996 : Director of the Ankara Nuclear Research and
Training Center Scientific, technical and administrative
direction of a Research Center with more than 200 employees in the fields of:
Nuclear Techniques in Material Science and Technology, Food and Agriculture,
Animal Health and Reproduction, Industrial Sterilization.
1992-1994 : General Chairman of the 9th
International Meeting on Radiation Processing held in Istanbul, 11-16 September
1994, attended by more than 400 scientists, technologists and industrialists
from 50 countries.
1993 : Advisor to IAEA on “New Trends and
Developments in Applied Radiation Chemistry”, Jerusalem, Israel
1993 : IAEA Expert on “The Use of Electron Beam
Technology in Flue-Gas Cleaning”, Warsaw, Poland
1993 : Consultant to IAEA on “The Use of Radiation
Technology in the Preservation of Archaeological Artifacts” , Vienna, Austria.
1994 : Organizer and co-director of IAEA Research
Coordination Meeting on “Radiation Processing
Technology Applications in Bioengineering”September, Istanbul
1994 : Organizer and co-director of IAEA Research
Coordination Meeting on “Development of Diagnostic
Reagents for Communicable Diseases Using
Radiation Processing Techniques” September, Istanbul
1994 : Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal,
Asian Journal of Chemistry, India
1995 : Member of the International Academic Council
of the Institute of Material Research, Lviv, Ukraine
1995 : Organizer and co-director of IAEA Research
Coordinated Meeting on “Stability and Stabilization of Polymers under
Irradiation” April, Ankara
1994 : IAEA Expert to Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) on
“Radiation effects on polymers”
1996-2002 : Scientific Officer in the “Industrial
Applications and Chemistry Section of the IAEA, responsible
on the promotion
and implementation of radiation technology in Member States
of UN