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| Mehmet Zeyrek | |
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| Vice President of Middle East Technical University | |
| Prof. Dr. | |
| In office 28 July 2016 – 16 August 2024 | |
| Head of Physics Department of Middle East Technical University | |
| In office 2012–2016 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mehmet Tevfik Zeyrek 1960 (age 64–65) Ankara, Turkey |
Mehmet Tevfik Zeyrek was born in Ankara in 1960. He graduated from the Department of Physics at METU in 1982, and received his master's degree in 1985 and his doctorate in 1991 from the same department. He completed his doctoral studies at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland as a TÜBİTAK scholarship holder and continued his postdoctoral studies at the same laboratory. He worked as a visiting researcher at Nagoya University in Japan and as a visiting professor at Texas Tech University in the USA. His research interests are experimental and phenomenological high energy physics, particle and radiation detectors and various applications of detectors. He is currently a member of the LHC CMS at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland and the Belle2 experiments at the KEK Laboratory in Japan.
Professional career
Mehmet Tevfik Zeyrek became an assistant in the Department of Physics at METU in 1982, a lecturer in 1993, an assistant professor in 1996, an associate professor in 1998 and a professor in 2003. He was a faculty board member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at METU and the head of the METU Physics Department between 2012-2016.
He served as Vice President responsible for research and budget at METU between 2016-2024, a member of the METU Northern Cyprus Campus Board of Directors between 2016-2021, and as the Vice President of the METU Northern Cyprus Campus Board of Directors and the Vice President of the Campus between 2021-2024. He also served as the Vice President of the METU Technopolis Board of Directors between 2020-2024.