Dr. Mustafa Erdik is a Professor Emeritus of Earthquake Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul and President of the Turkish Earthquake Foundation. He has received his BSc degree from Middle East Technical University, MSc and PhD degrees from Rice University, USA. He has worked with UN organizations and several international foundations around the world on earthquake engineering problems and has authored about 300 scientific publications.
He is the recipient of United Nation's Sasakawa Disaster Prevention Award, NATO’s Science for Peace – Summit Prize, Bruce Bolt Medal given by Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, USA: Prof. Nicholas Ambraseys Distinguished Lecture Award given by the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and; Science Award by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
His professional expertise encompasses: earthquake hazard and risk assessment, earthquake insurance modeling, earthquake early warning and rapid response systems, earthquake resistant design of infrastructures (especially dams, tunnels and pipelines), earthquake protection of historical edifices, structural control (seismic isolation, tuned mass dampers).
Dr. Tüzün has received his BSc in Civil Engineering and MSc degree in Structural Engineering at Dokuz Eylul University in 1997 and 1999 respectively and PhD degree in Earthquake Engineering at Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Engineering Department of Bogazici University in 2007. His main research areas are seismic resistant design of structures, performance based design, seismic assessment of existing buildings, vulnerability assessment of building stocks, seismic isolation and seismic design of high rise buildings.
Dr. Tuzun worked as a manager of the EMME (Earthquake Model of Middle East) project which a reginal program of GEM (Global Earthquake Model). He has also contributed in several European Union funded projects such as NERIES, TRIPOD, NERA and REAKT. He has work on vulnerability assessment of existing structures in different locations on high seismic risk and proposed methodology for vulnerability assessment of building portfolios. Dr. Tuzun has participated in the preparation committees of Turkish Seismic Code 2007 and 2017.
Dr. Tuzun has worked in numerous seismic risk assessment projects as both engineer of record and consultant. In the engineering practice, he has participated in design process and 20+ high-rise and 15+ more seismically isolated buildings. Dr. Tuzun is currently working as freelance earthquake engineering consultant and part-time lecturer in Gebze Technical University Department of Structural Earthquake Engineering.
Sinan Akkar is a faculty member in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Bogazici University. He received his MSc (1995) and Ph.D. (2001) in Structural Engineering from Middle East Technical University. Dr. Akkar worked as a research associate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University in 2001. He visited the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College in 2005. Sinan Akkar is also a faculty member at the Rose School Earthquake Engineering Graduate Program of the Pavia University, Italy.
The main research interests of Dr. Akkar are development of ground motion models to predict ground motion intensity measures and probabilistic hazard and risk assessment. He has been involved as a researcher, principal investigator or consultant to various national and international seismic hazard and risk projects.
Dr. Demircioglu-Tümsa has received her BSc in Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Sakarya Engineering Faculty in 1997, and MSc and PhD degrees in Earthquake Engineering at Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Engineering Department of Bogazici University in 2003, and 2010, respectively. Her main research areas are seismic hazard and risk assessment, compilation of historical earthquakes, determination of insurance parameters such as AAL and PML.
She has contributed in several European Union funded projects such as LESSLOSS (Earthquake and Mitigation Risks for Landslide Integrated Project), MEM (Turkey-Marmara Earthquake Emergency Reconstruction) PREVIEW (Prevention Information and Early Warning) SAFER (Seismic Early Warning Europe), NERIES (European Research Infrastructure Network for European Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation), REAKT (Strategies and Tools for Real-Time Earthquake Risk Reduction in Europe), SHARE(Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe), EMME (Middle East Earthquake Model), MARSITE (New Directions in Seismic Hazard Assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the Marmara Supersite), SciNetNatHAz (A Scientific Network for Earthquake, Landslide and Flood Hazard Prevention) and STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management), as a researcher or expert engineer. In addition to international projects, she has contributed in several national project such as ISTKA funded"Internet-Based Earthquake Damage and Loss Estimation System (ELE-NET)" project, UDAP-O-13-06 "Revised of Seismic Hazard Map in Turkey" project.
Dr. Demircioğulu-Tümsa has participated in the preparation committees of Turkish Seismic Code 2018.
Dr. Mine Betül Demircioğlu-Tümsa is currently working as freelance earthquake engineering consultant.
Erhan Altunel is Professor of Geology at the Department of Geological Engineering, Eskişehir Osmangazi University. After graduating from Department of Geology (Hydrogeology) of Hacettepe University, he carried out his MSc and PhD in Structural Geology/Active Tectonics in the Department of Geology of Bristol University (UK). He has been working in Active Tectonics since then. His academic studies focused on tectonic geomorphology, paleoseismology, archaeoseismology, earthquake geology and cultural geology and he has published national-international papers, conducted national-international research projects and supervised MSc-PhD thesis in these disciplines of Active Tectonics. In addition to academic studies, he has conducted studies for the investigation of Active Faults in national and international engineering projects and has consulted on such projects. His professional expertise encompasses determination of the location and activities of active faults, mapping of active faults, investigation of the effects of historical earthquakes on archaeological remains.
Prof Dr. Ali Pınar, graduated from Istanbul Univeristy Department of Geophysics in 1984. Having received his MSc and PhD degrees from Istanbul University and Bogazici University, respectively, he has expertized in various fields of earth sciences and engineering. Seismology, seismotectonics, earth physics, earthquake engineering, shallow geophysics are among the subject he expertized in several national and international projects. Solid experience in teaching, research, problem identification and solving in earth sciences and engineering. Main topics of interest are: Industry based local seismic network configuration, installation and operation; Earthquake early warning applications; Real-time seismology applications; Local and regional seismicity analysis and modelling; Aftershock monitoring and forecasting; Seismic source modelling; Rupture process analysis of large earthquakes; Seismotectonics; Seismlogical databases; Earth physics; Shallow underground geophysics survey.