41st IUPAC Council Meeting
Nominee for the Bureau
Prof. Dr. Selahattin Gületkin (Turkey)
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Prof. Dr. Selahattin Gületkin
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Education and Career: Prof. Gületkin received B.S. and
M.S. degrees in chemistry in 1973 from Istanbul University and also
earned M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in chemistry from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT).
Since October 2000, Prof. Gületkin has been Professor of Chemistry
at Dogus University in Istanbul. He previously (1994-2000) was a professor
in the Chemistry Department at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.
His prior professional positions have included serving as a visiting
professor at MIT, associate and assistant professor in the Chemical
Engineering Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and M i
n e r a l s (KFUPM), assistant professor at Istanbul University, teaching
and research assistant at MIT, lecturer in the Chemical Engineering
Department at Istanbul University, second lieutenant in the Turkish
Army, and manager in the Quality Control Division at the SABA Pharmaceutical
Company in Istanbul.
Research Activities: Prof. Gületkin has research interests
in kinetics, reactor design and catalysis, mathematical modeling of
chemical systems, computer simulations, industrial chemical processes,
electrochemistry, and transport phenomena. He has more than 50 publications
in areas of his research activities, and his work has been cited more
than 120 times in the Science Citation Index. He has presented papers
at scientific conferences all over the world during the past two decades.
Prof. Gületkin has supervised work on 5 doctoral and 12 master'
s thesis.
Related Professional Activities: Prof. Gületkin currently
serves as Secretary General of the Turkish Chemical Society and Executive
Committee Member of the Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS).
He is actively involved in deliberations on how to make chemistry a
popular profession in Turkey. He has recently co-authored the Dictionary
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Terms: English-Turkish and Turkish-English
(Istanbul, 2000).
Awards: Prof. Gületkin has won Distinguished Researcher
(1986) and Distinguished Teacher (1989 and 1993) Awards at KFUPM. He
is also the recipient of Incitement Awards in Science and Engineering
at Yildiz Technical University (1996, 1998, and 1999).
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