Academic Staff

İrfan ALAN, Professor

Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Electrical and Computer Eng., 1993.

Research Areas: Electrical and Electromechanical Energy Conversion Issues; Design and Control of Electrical Machines and Drives; Design and Control of Power Electronic Circuits; Loss Reduction, Efficiency and Performance Improvement Issues; Efficient Use of Electrical Energy; Induction Heating; Power Generation and Shaping Issues; Energy Storage Systems and Control; Electrical and Electromechanical Aspects of Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles; Actuator and Control Systems

Murat DURANDURDU, Professor

Ph.D.: Ohio University, Physics, 2002.

Research Areas: Computational Materials Science and Engineering, Nanotechnology, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Evren MUTLUGÜN, Professor

Ph.D.: Bilkent University, Physics, 2012.

Research Areas: Semiconductor quantum dots, metal nanoparticles, nanocomposites, organic light emitting diodes, photovoltaics, excitonic- plasmonic nanostructures and light harvesting applications, flexible and stretchable electronics, innovative lighting and display technologies.

Mehmet ŞAHİN, Professor

Ph.D.: Selçuk University, Physics, 2005.

Research Areas: Experimental:Electrical characterization of thin film solar cells, electrical characterization of metal-semiconductor diodes, optical characterization of semiconductor thin films. Theoretical: Electronic properties of single- and many-electron semiconductor quantum dot nanostructures, intraband optical transitions in quantum dots, excitons in quantum dots, numerical computations and genetic algorithms

Burak UZAL, Professor

Ph.D.: Middle East Technical University, Civil Engineering, 2007.

Research Areas: Advanced cementitious systems and their durability, natural mineral admixtures for concrete, environment-friendly cements-concrete systems, lightweight concrete, high-performance concrete, cement and concrete systems with high volume of mineral admixtures, micro and nanostructure of cementitious systems.

Niğmet UZAL, Professor

Ph.D.: Middle East Technical University, Environmental Engineering, 2007.

Research Areas: Membrane technologies for water treatment, industrial wastewater treatment and reuse, physicochemical treatment processes, anaerobic biotechnology.

Hakan USTA, Professor

Ph.D.: Northwestern University, Chemistry, 2008.

Research Areas: Materials design and synthesis for organic electronic applications, molecular and polymeric semiconductors, nanodielectic capacitors, light-emissive fluorescent/phosphorescent materials, graphene and graphene-like 2D conductors and semiconductors, organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), organic solar cells (OPVs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and transistors (OLETs).

Burak BAL, Professor

Ph.D: Koç University, Mechanical Engineering, 2015.

Research Interests: New-generation energy efficient structural materials, high-strength steels, microstructure based modeling, mechanical deformation and microstructure evolution, fatigue and fracture. 

Seyit GÖKMEN, Assistant Professor

Ph. D. : University of Birmingham, 2022

Research Areas : Financial Intermediation, Financial Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics with a Focus on Banking

Abdulkadir DOĞAN, Associate Professor

Ph.D.: University of Wales, Applied Mathematics, 1997.

Research Areas: Numerical solution, finite element methods, partial differential equations, differential equations, boundary value problems, dynamic equations on time scales.

Sergey BORISENOK, Associate Professor

Ph.D. : St. Petersburg State University, Theoretical Physics, 1996

Research Interests : Statistical Physics & Applied Mathematics, Control Theory in Physics, Non-Linear Dynamics, PDEs, Brain Dynamics, qEEG

Mehmet Tarık ATAY, Associate Professor

Ph.D.: Middle East Technical University, Engineering Sciences, 2005.

Research Areas: Computational Mechanics, Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations, Stiff/Singular Perturbation Problems and their Numerical Solutions

Müge AKIN, Associate Professor

PhD: METU, Geological engineering, 2009. (2008-2009 UW-Seattle, USA)

Research Areas: Engineering geology/Geotechnical engineering- Seismic microzonation, Soil mechanics, Geotechnical earthquake engineering, Site investigation, Site response and Soil amplification, Liquefaction, Seismic hazard analyses, Rocfall hazards, Geotechnical site characterization, Ground improvement techniques, Geographical Information System (GIS)-3-D modeling, Digitizing, Multi-Criteria Decision Analyses, overlay analyses

Kevser KAHRAMAN, Associate Professor

Ph.D.: Hacettepe University, Food Engineering, 2011.

Research Areas: Functional foods, enzyme resistant starch and health effects, cereal and cereal products technology, food chemistry, rheology.

Zafer AYDIN, Associate Professor

Ph.D.: Georgia Institute of Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008.

Research Interests: Machine learning, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, computational biology, protein structure prediction.

Rifat KURBAN, Associate Professor

PhD: Erciyes University, Computer Engineering, 2012.
Research Interests: Optimization Algorithms, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Industrial Internet of Things, Antenna Array Design and Water Management.

Emel ALTAŞ, Associate Professor

PhD: Middle East Technical University, Physics, 2018

Research Areas: Mathematical Physics, Cosmology, Differential Geometry

Burcu BAKIR GÜNGÖR, Associate Professor

Ph.D.: Georgia Institute of Technology/Sabanci University, Bioinformatics, 2012.

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Genomics, Next Generation Sequencing, Molecular Biology of Genetic Disorders, Computational Biology.

Cihan ÇİFTÇİ, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil Engineering, 2012.

Research Areas: Earthquake engineering, probabilistic methods in structural mechanics, static and dynamic analyses of structures, Monte-Carlo simulations, finite element modelling for structures, tree dynamics, risk assessment of tree failures, structural reliability, design of steel constructions

Dooyoung HAH, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, Electrical Engineering, 2000.

Research Areas: Optical microsystems, RF MEMS, microsystems for biomedical imaging, molecular imaging, microactuators/microsensors, nanocomposites, nanophotonic devices, microplasma/microdischarge devices

Bekir Hakan AKSEBZECİ, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Erciyes University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2011.

Research Areas: Biomedical pattern recognition, biomedical signal/image processing, bioinformatics

Aysun CEBECİ AYDIN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Middle East Technical University, Biochemistry, 2008.

Research Areas: Food microbiology, microbial genetics, bioinformatics, microbial identification methods, probiotics, bacteriocins, lactic acid bacteria.

Erkin AYDIN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Middle East Technical University, Biotechnology, 2010.

Research Areas: Biomaterials, biopolymers, composites, nanotechnologies, biomechanics, tissue engineering, stem cells and regenerative medicine, drug delivery and controlled release, biosensors.

İlker ERDEM, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: İzmir Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering, 2009.

Research Areas: Food, biotechnology, micro/ultra/nano filtration, sol-gel, ceramic filters.

Ayşegül ÖZTÜRKALAN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D: Mathematics, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2013

Research Areas: Geometric Topology, Plane Curves of Degree Six (Sextics), Moduli Space of Sextics, Singularities of Curves, Simple Singularities.

Muhammed SÜTÇÜ, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.:University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, 2014.

Research Areas: Decision making with incomplete information and preferences, Data-based decision making, Information theory, Preference Elicitation, Utility theory, Multiattribute decision making, and simulation modeling, with a particular interest in applications to automobile industry, global warming and climate change.

Gülay YALÇIN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Department of Computer Architecture, 2014.

Research Interests: Computer Architecture, Reliable Computer Design, Fault Detection and Recovery, Parallel Computer Architectures, Hardware Transactional Memory, Low-Power Designs

Talha Erdem, Assistant Professor

PhD: Bilkent University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2016.

Research Areas: Optoelectronic devices, LED design, color science, nanophotonics, self-assembly, colloidal nanophotonics, smart nanophotonic structures and devices, plasmonic interaction, radiative and nonradiative energy transfer. 

Burak TEKGÜN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: University of Akron, USA, 2016.

Research Areas: Electric machines design and control, motor drives, power electronic circuits design and control, high frequency, high power wide bandgap semiconductor applications, renewable energy applications, core losses measurement, analysis and estimation in electric machines.

Veli Tayfun KILIÇ, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Bilkent University, Electrical - Electronics Engineering, 2017.

Research Areas: Radio frequency (RF) systems, near-field and far-field electromagnetic coupling, RF antennas, plasmonic antennas, RF circuits, high-efficiency induction systems and applications.

Çağatay YILMAZ, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Sabancı University, Material Science and Engineering, 2018.

Research Areas: Composite Structures, Fracture Mechanics, Acoustic Emission, Sensors, Micro-Damage Mechanism in Laminated Composite

Turgut TUT, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Bilkent University, Physics, 2008.

Research Areas: Design, fabrication of UV-Vis photodetectors, micro-nano fabrication techniques, high aspect ratio micro-nano pillars, a-Si:H based thin film transistors. Flexible electronics.

Yılmaz Mehmet DEMİRCİ, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: İzmir Institute of Technology, Mathematics, 2012.

Research Areas: Homological Algebra, Abelian Groups, Module and Ring Theory

Burak ASİLİSKENDER, Professor

Ph.D.: Istanbul Technical University, Architecture (Architectural Design), 2008.

Research Interests: Architectural Theory, Turkish Modernization, Industrial Sites, Modernity, Identity, Urban History; Kayseri, Urban Design, Space-Place Concepts

Asım Mustafa AYTEN, Associate Professor

Ph.D.: Ankara University, Public Administration (Urban and Environmental Sciences), 2002.

Research Interests: Urban conservation and renewal, Ecology, Environmental politics, Land development law, Urbanization politics

Nisa SEMİZ, Associate Professor

Ph. D.: İstanbul Technical University, Restoration, 2015

Research Interests: Architectural conservation and restoration, architectural and archaeological documentation, urban archaeology, preservation and management of archaeological heritage, byzantine fortifications and their preservation.

Buket METİN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: İstanbul Technical University, Building Science, 2017

Research Interests: Building and construction technologies in architecture, environmental performance of building construction process, environmental management systems, performance-based architectural detail design, facade technologies, energy efficiency in buildings, life cycle assessment in buildings and building materials, building performance simulation.

Sinan AKYÜZ, Assistant Professor

Ph. D: The University of Sheffield, 2019

Research Interests: UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Goal 11, Sustainable Cities and Living Spaces, Finance Sector and Housing Integration, Urban Renewal Projects, Impacts of Urban Renewal Projects on Slum Settlements and Residents

Ömer Devrim AKSOYAK, Assistant Professor

Ph.D. : Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University  / Department of City and Regional Planning / Urbanism Ph.D Programme, 2019
Research Insterests: Architectural Design, Urban Design, Design Guides, Cultural Heritage Management, Site Management Plans, Historical Urban Landscape, Project Management
 

Özlem KEVSEROĞLU, Assistant Professor

PhD: Istanbul Technical University, City and Regional Planning

Research: Conservation and Sustainability of Rural Cultural Heritage, Cultural Landscape, City-Culture-Society Interactions, Production Landscape, Urban Memory Studies, Mapping Techniques and Representation Methods

Mevra TEMEL ÇİÇEK, Assistant Professor

PHD: School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University, Design.

Research Areas: Thermal and physical comfort of protective clothing, Human-clothing interaction, the improvement of clothing design for comfort, the design of next-generation protective clothing.

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mevra-Temel

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FYGm5dwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Tuğçe Büşra SU ÇADIRCI, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: PhD about Material Conservation, University of Bath, UK, 2023

Research Areas: Lime mortar, the influence of pozzolan on lime mortars, the imfluence of dewatering on lime mortars, freezing and thawing, degredation, masonry conservation, the integration between contemporary and historic buildings.

İffet PALA ERCAN, Assistant Professor

Guest Academician, Abdullah Gül University, Faculty of Architecture, Industrial Design

Ph.D.: Istanbul Technical University, Industrial Product Design, 2020

Research Areas: Wearable technology products, wearable exoskeletons, internet of things, product design and entrepreneurship, new product development process, materials in product design, product design and textiles.

Dr. Bahar Elagöz TİMUR, Lecturer

Ph. D.: Abdullah Gül University, Architecture

Research Interests: Architectural conservation, restoration, documentation and documentation techniques. Re-functioning the architectural heritage. Industrial Heritage. Advanced measurement techniques in architectural protection. Preservation and sustainability of rural and traditional architectural heritage.

Ayşegül KIDIK, Lecturer

Ph. D: Abdullah Gül University, Architecture (ongoing)

Research Interests: Cyborg Architecture. Computational Design Approaches. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Mixed Reality. Wooden Materials.

Nihan Muş ÖZMEN, Lecturer

Ph. D: Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi, Architecture (ongoing)

Research Interests: Architectural Design, Parametric Design, Flexible Spaces, Transformative Spaces, Mobile Offices, Working Spaces

Cengiz YILMAZ, Professor

Ph.D.: Texas Tech University, Marketing, 1999.

Research Areas: Distribution channels, relationship marketing, inter-firm relationships, cultural and strategic issues concerning intra- and inter-firm aspects of marketing systems and their links with business performance.

Erk HACIHASANOĞLU, Professor

Ph.D.: Hacettepe University, Business Administration, 2002.

Research Areas: Risk Management, Emerging Market Economies and Commodity Markets

Eyüp DOĞAN, Professor

Ph.D.: Clemson University, USA, Economics, 2014

Research Areas: Economic Growth, Energy Economics, Enviromental Economics, Econometrics, International Economics

Umut TÜRK, Associate Professor

Ph. D: University of Verona, Economics, 2017

Research Areas: Urban Economics, Equality of Opportunity, Segregation, Accessibility, Neighbourhood Effects and Spatial Economics

Ali Yavuz POLAT, Associate Professor

PhD.: University of Leicester, Economics, 2017

Research Areas: Financial Economics, Behavioral Finance, Banking and Financial Regulation

Adil ORAN, Associate Professor

Ph. D.: Texas Tech University, Finance, 1999

Research Areas: Entrepreneurship, Firm Survival, Event Study Methodology, Financial Statement Analysis, Behavioral Finance, Stock and Capital Markets

Heiko SCHUSS, Assistant Professor

PhD.: Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Theology, Institute of Economics, 2006.

Research Areas: Institutional Economics, Development Economics, Business Culture, Economy of the Middle East and Turkey, Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance.

Fatma Selen MADENOGLU, Assistant Professor

PhD: Dokuz Eylül University, Industrial Engineering, 2017

Research Areas: Scheduling, Assembly Line Balancing, meta-Heuristic Algorithms

Serap SARP, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Brunel University London, Marketing, 2019

Research Interests: Corporate Branding, SME Marketing and Performance, Artificial Intelligence

Burak Kağan DEMİRTAŞ, Assistant Professor

PhD.: Southampton University, 2019

Research Areas: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Microeconomics, Labor Economics. 

Eda USTAOĞLU, Assistant Professor

PhD.: University College Dublin, 2012.  (Türkçesi Dublin Koleji Üniversitesi olacak) 

Research Areas: Economic Appraisal of Transport Infrastructure, Sustainability Impact Assessment, Urban and Regional Economics, Land Use and Environmental Science 

Engin ARIK, Professor

Ph.D: Linguistics, Purdue University (USA)

Research Areas: Linguistics, Psychology, and Cognitive Sciences, Space-Time-Language-Cognition Concepts, Their Conceptualization, and Applied Psycholinguistics

Armağan TEKE LLOYD, Associate Professor

Ph.D.: McMaster University, Canada, Political Science, 2016 

Research Areas: Gender and Migration; Migration Regimes, Borders and Global Governance of Migration; Citizenship/Illegality; Transnational Social Networks 

Özgür BALKILIÇ, Associate Professor

PhD: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, History, 2015

Research Areas: Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Marxism and History, The Twentieth Century Turkish History, Classes and Class Formations in Turkey, Nationalism and State in Turkey, Cultural Life of the Early Republican Period in Turkey, Social Policy, Poverty and Migration in Turkey

Ahmet Çoymak, Associate Professor

Ph. D.: Queen's University Belfast, Psychology, Northern Ireland, 2016

Research Areas: Before joining AGU, Çoymak, who continued her research and lectured at Columbia University Barnard, is interested in intergroup relations, civic participation, political trust, stereotypes and discrimination.

Mehmet Akif Güzel, Associate Professor

Ph. D.: University of Southampton, Psychology, England / UK, 2012

Research Areas: metacognition, retrieval processes, experimental psychopathology; also, cognitive factors in eating behaviour and metacognitive processes in mathematics education among elementary school students

Siyabend KAYA, Associate Professor

Ph.D: Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading (UK)

Research Areas: Brief-Emergency Psychotherapy, Projective Techniques, Developmental and Traumatic Crises in Adolescents, Adolescent Depression, Anhedonia, Panic Disorder, Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research.

Huriye Gökten DOĞANGÜN, Associate Professor

Ph. D.: Middle East Technical University, Political Science and Public Administration, 2014

Research Areas: Gender Studies, Comparative Politics, Turkish Politics, Russian Studies

Murat İNAN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: The University of Sheffield, UK, Politics, 2016

Research Areas: Political Behaviour, Political Tolerance, Pro-democratic Culture, The Modernization Theory, Theories of Socialization, Quantitative Research Methods

Mehmet Celil Çelebi, Assistant Professor

Ph. D.: University of Oregon, USA, Political Science, 2016

Research Areas: Turkish Political Life, Democracy and Democratization, Interpretative Research Methods

Evren M. Dinçer, Assistant Professor

Ph. D.: Cornell University, USA, Sociology, 2016

Research Areas: Sociology of work, Economic sociology, Urban sociology

Çağlar Kurç, Assistant Professor

Ph. D.: Middle East Technical University, International Relations, 2013

Research Areas: Political Economy of Defense, Defense Industry and Procurement, Military Innovation and Adaptation

Öznur ÖNCÜL DEMİR, Assistant Professor

Ph.D: Psychology (Clinical Psychology), Middle East Technical University

Research Areas: Psychology of Violence, Emotional Mechanisms of Psychological Disorders

Dr. Şakir YILMAZ, Lecturer

Ph.D: Clinical Psychology, University of Exeter (UK)

Research Areas: The Relationship Between Mood and Behaviour, Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Depression, Behavioural Activation.

Dr. İbrahim Hakan GÖVER, Lecturer

Ph. D: Kırıkkale University, Sociology, 2021

Research Areas: Globalization and Internationalization, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Culture, Social Change

Sevil Dinçer İŞOĞLU, Professor

Ph.D.: Hacettepe University, Bioengineering, 2006.

Research Areas: Biomaterials, tissue engineering, wound dressing materials, amphiphilic and smart polymers, RAFT polymerization, gene therapy, polymeric nanocarriers, controlled drug release, phage display

İ. Alper İŞOĞLU, Associate Professor

Ph.D.: Hacettepe University, Bioengineering, 2009.

Research Areas: Bone tissue engineering, biodegradable polymeric biomaterials, 3d scaffold design, electrospinning method.

Müşerref Duygu SAÇAR DEMİRCİ, Associate Professor

Ph.D: İzmir Institute of Technology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, 2017

Research Area: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Transcriptomics, MicroRNA, Data Mining, Host-Pathogen Interactions 

Aysun ADAN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D. İzmir Institute of Technology, 2015
Research Areas: Cancer Molecular Biology, Natural Products and Anti-Cancer Potentials, Apoptosis, Signaling Pathways, Multidrug Resistance and Its Reversal, Combination Therapies

Sebiha ÇEVİK KAPLAN, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: University College Dublin(UCD), Ireland, 2011
Research Areas: By Using C.Elegans as a Model Organism; Investigation of Molecular Mechanisms of Genetic Diseases, Discovering New Genes that have Roles in Cilia, Drug Discoveries for Reproductive Aging.

Emel Başak GENCER AKÇOK, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Biotecnology and Bioengineering, 2015

Research Areas: Cancer molecular biology, intracellular signal pathways, protein-proten interactions, protein kinases, discovery of new biomarkers in cancer, interaction proteomics

Elif BENGÜ, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: University of Cincinnati, Curriculum and Instruction with the Emphasis of Adult Education, 2009

Research Interests: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Faculty Development, Educational Technology, Material & Instructional Design, International Education, Creative Drama in Education, Action Research

Daryl YORK, Instructor

Daryl York, BA (Hons) Adelaide, RSA Dip, MScTEFL Aston University.
Daryl York was educated in the UK and Australia. His main areas of experience and expertise are English Language Teaching, International Education and Educational Management. He served until 2007 as Director of Tarsus American School. Until 2013 he was a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at Bilkent University, where he also worked as the General Coordinator responsible for setting up the İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent Erbil College in Iraq, a school which opened in 2010 and which he continues to serve as a Board Member. He has also taught English in France and Yemen.

Nisrin AL-RUBAIEE, Instructor

Nisrin Al-Rubaiee is a Dutch citizen of Iraqi origin. She obtained a Master’s degree in English Literature from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and has a teaching certificate from Amsterdam University. She has nine years working experience, seven of which were in The Netherlands and two in Turkey. Nisrin has taught at secondary schools, universities and has given private tutoring to managers in companies. She has taught general language courses and English for special purposes (English) for Business. Nisrin is currently working on her second Master’s, in TESOL.

Tuğba BİRDAL, Instructor

Tuğba Birdal graduated from Hacettepe University, English Linguistics Department in 2008. Then, she got English Teaching Certificate from the same university. She completed an associate degree program on Foreign Trade in Anadolu University, 2010. In 2014, when she was in USA, she completed a TESOL program held in George Washington University, in Washington D.C. She is currently working on her Masters degree in English Language Teaching at Erciyes University. Previously she worked as a teacher in a private course (2008-2012) and prepared undergraduate and graduate students for language proficiency exams in Turkey. Tuğba joined Abdullah Gül University in January 2012. Her interests include current ELT Methods, Second Language Education, Socio-linguistics, reading and travelling.

Eren DELİBAŞ, Instructor

Born in 1988 in Kayseri, Eren Delibaş graduated from Erciyes University with a first in English Language and Literature. He previously worked as an English Instructor at the School of Foreign Languages, Erciyes University. Eren Delibaş joined Abdullah Gül University in February 2012. He is currently working on his Master’s degree in English Language and Literature at Erciyes University. His interests include modern and postmodern fiction and drama, literary criticism and theory, Greek mythology, academic writing and playing tennis.

Cengiz DEMETS, Instructor

Born and raised in Canada, Cengiz Demets is a graduate of the University of Toronto where he received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs, followed by a Bachelor of Education. After completing his studies at the Faculty of Education in 2007, Cengiz went on to become a full-time high school teacher in the Toronto region where he had the opportunity to teach at four different high schools in both English and French. As a teacher, his area of focus became French as a Second Language for immersion students at the senior level. Cengiz’s professional interests include second language acquisition, assessment & evaluation, critical literacy and instructional media & technology. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, playing basketball and above all, playing with his 4 children.

Morgan LLOYD, Instructor

Morgan Lloyd was born and raised in Kingston, Canada. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and History at Queen's University in 2007 and subsequently went on to complete a Master of Arts in Political Economy at Carleton University in 2009. Following a brief stint as a PhD candidate at McMaster University, Morgan went on to receive the CELTA in 2012 and then to complete his Bachelor of Education at Queen's University in 2014 with a special emphasis upon EAP instruction. Morgan's interests include Ottoman history, critical economics, evolutionary psychology and linguistics.

Tuğba ÖZBEK, Instructor

A 2004 Foreign Language Education graduate of Middle East Technical University, Tuğba has previously taught English at Abant Izzet Baysal University Language Research and Teaching Center (2004-2007) and at Uludağ University Foreign Language School (2007-2011). Tuğba joined Abdullah Gül University in October 2011. Her interests include Applied Linguistics, NLP, Literature and Society, Lexicon Etymology, Contrastive Analysis of Languages, Music and Developmental Psychology.

Marie-Louise XAVIER, Instructor

Marie-Louise received her BA in Language and Communications from Curtin University, Western Australia. After working as a photographer and copywriter, she completed a Certificate IV in Instructional Multimedia and worked in print and web design, animation and film for 15 years. Marie-Louise gained her Diploma of Education from Edith Cowan University in 2004. After teaching English, Media and Drama in Perth, Western Australia for four years, Marie-Louise completed the CELTA and came to Istanbul. She is interested in students developing a range of skills and abilities that enable them to deconstruct the world around them.

Özlem YAZICI, Instructor

Graduate of English Language and Literature from Hacettepe University, 2007. She is currently working on her Master’s degree in the same department at Ankara University. She previously worked as an instructor at Ufuk University and Hacettepe University. Özlem joined Abdullah Gül University in February 2012. She is now working on curriculum and material development in the unit. Her interests include new trends in ELT, English language teacher blogs, different cultures, reading, cinema and travel.

Tuba DEMİR, Instructor

Tuba DEMİR graduated from English Language and Literature Department in Faculty of Science and Arts at Erciyes University as the top graduate student of the department. Simultaneously, she also participated a program called Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program and gained the title of English Teacher.

During the program, she worked as a trainee at four different schools two of which were secondary school and the rest of which were high schools. In addition, she worked as an English Drama Teacher at a school in the campus. Moreover, she worked at the School of Foreign Languages, at vocational schools, faculties and prep classes teaching Main Course, Beginner and Elementary Level English courses, Listening & Speaking & Writing & Reading courses at Niğde University.

She is now working at School of Foreign Languages at Abdullah Gul University as an Instructor.

Rana SUAYIN, Instructor

She graduated from Erciyes University with a first in English Language and Literature Department in 2008. She worked as a language instructor at Melikşah University from 2009 to 2015. She joined Abdullah Gül University in July, 2015. Married with one daughter, she continues her education as a Ph.D student at Melikşah University ELL Department in Applied Linguistics field. With years of experience in Language Assessment in English as a Foreign Language, she is interested in the latest developments in this field.

Esra HASOĞLU, Instructor

Esra HASOĞLU graduated from the English Language and Literature Department in the Faculty of Science and Arts at Erciyes University. Simultaneously, she also participated in a course called Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program and gained the title of English Teacher.

 She has started her career at TED Kayseri Foundation Schools and worked there from 2006 to 2013. She has attended many workshops about teacher development, educational technology, teaching young learners and new methods in teaching English and still continues to work on these issues.

She started working at Abdullah Gül University in 2015 as an Instructor in  the School of Foreign Languages.

Zerrin ÖZDEMİR, Instructor

Zerrin Özdemir graduated from English Language and Literature Department in Faculty of Science and Arts at Hacettepe Universityin 2010. She also participated in Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program in Hacettepe University and was certified in English Language Teaching. In 2013, she completed CELTA in Istanbul and currently works on her Master’s degree in English Language Teaching at Erciyes University. From 2010 to 2015, she worked at Melikşah University as an English instructor. She also worked at Melikşah University Material and Curriculum Development Office during the 2014-2015 academic year, and she taught writing for IELTS. Zerrin Özdemir joined Abdullah Gül University in January 2016. 

Olfa BOUSSADA HMILI, Instructor

Olfa was born and raised in Tunisia. After receiving her Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature, she worked as a translator/Interpreter for Inter-governmental and humanitarian organizations.  In 2013, she finished her TKT training and moved to Turkey to teach English. Before joining Abdullah Gül University, she served as the Head of the Department at an International School. Olfa’s interests include travelling and sports. 

Umair AHSAN, Instructor

Umair Ahsan is from London. Prior to joining Abdullah Gul, he lived in Istanbul for four years, where he taught at several universities. Umair holds BSc and MA degrees from King's College, London, together with a CELTA (and a partially completed DELTA). In his free time he enjoys traveling, visiting places of historic significance, reading crime fiction, exploring the outdoors, and spending time with his family.

Nuray CANDEMİR, Instructor

Nuray Candemir, who was born in Kayseri, graduated from English Language and Literature department of Hacettepe Unversity and then worked at a language school in Kayseri which served to prepare students for national and international language proficiency exams. Meanwhile, she also worked as a certified interpreter while on the other hand she coordinated and participated in Youth in Action Projects together with several NGOs. She also studied for her Master’s degree on Philosophy of Religion and then on English Language and Literature at Erciyes University. After working at a foundation university for three years, she has joined to our team in 2018. She has been studying for her PhD degree on English Language and Literature since 2014. She is interested in world languages and literature, drama, children’s literature, cooking, and photography.

Merve GAZİOĞLU, Instructor

Merve Gazioğlu graduated from English Language Teaching Department at Erciyes University in 2011. She worked at Erciyes University (2011-2013) and Melikşah University (2013-2016) as an English Instructor. She was also a member of Material Development team for a while. She joined Abdullah Gul University, School of Foreign Languages in January, 2018. Currently, she has been doing her Integrated PhD in Applied Linguistics at Erciyes University since 2014. She is interested in Testing and Assessment, Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics and has been conducting some academic studies on these fields. She likes reading, watching movies, playing the piano and travelling in her spare time.

Yasin TURAN, Instructor

Yasin TURAN graduated from Marmara University ELT Department in 2005. He worked as an instructor in different institutions of Turkish Air Force between 2008 and 2017. He received his diploma on “Advanced English Language Instructor Course” given by the US Air Force in Texas / USA. In 2013, he was assigned to NATO Training Mission in Kabul Afghanistan and he actively took participation in establishment of Afghan Foreign Languae Institution. He has a Master’s degree on Curriculum Development regarding English for Specific Purpose (Aviation). In his thesis, he studied an Aviation program and a coursebook both of which were developed by himself and he contributed a lot to ESP field in Turkey. In 2015, he attended a conference in London and his article was awarded with “Best Paper Award” by the organization committee. He is still continuing his doctorate studies and taking DELTA courses as well. Yasin TURAN was given more than 60 national and international certificates of merit including “Outstanding Service Award”, “Achievement Medal in Education” and “NATO Medal”.

Mustafa ÖZER, Instructor

Born and raised in Kayseri, Mustafa received his BA in English Language Teaching from Anadolu University Education Faculty in 2005. He started his teaching career in 2006 and taught English as a foreign language at various state schools in Rize and Artvin. After 12 years of teaching experience, he returned to Kayseri and joined us at AGU School of Foreign Languages in May 2018. He is currently working on his Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at Karadeniz Technical University. Mustafa’s professional interests are corpus linguistics, classroom discourse, learner motivation and the use of technology in ELT. Passionate about Beşiktaş, Mustafa enjoys spending time with his family and friends. He also loves traveling, local dishes of Kayseri and photography.

Eda KEVSER ŞAHİN, Instructor

Born and raised in Sivas, Eda Kevser ŞAHİN received her BA in Department of English Language and Literature from Cumhuriyet University in 2013. During her BA, she studied as an exchange student in the University of Bayreuth in Germany. In 2014 she completed her BA in the Department of International Relations at Anadolu University. She worked at Western Languages and Literatures Department at Kilis 7 Aralık University and English Language and Literature Department at Erciyes University as a research assistant (2013-2019). She is currently working on her PhD thesis in English Literature at Erciyes University. Her research interests include orientalism, ecocriticism, psychology, culture studies and comparative literature.