TÜBA Member Prof. Inan Medal from the American Geophysical Union
Prof. Dr. Umran S. Inan, TÜBA Honorary Member and Lecturer in the Departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Physics, was awarded the John Adam Fleming Medal by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Prof. Dr. Umran S. İnan, Rector of Koç University between 2009 and 2021, was awarded the John Adam Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which has been presented to a scientist every year since 1962.
Prof. İnan, who is known for his work in the fields of geophysics, near space, ionosphere and atmospheric physics, radiation belts, electromagnetic wave-basic particle interaction and very low frequency radio science, received the medal for his pioneering discoveries in lightning-ionosphere interaction and magnetosphere wave-particle interactions and his leading role in the field.
Who is Prof. Dr. Umran Savaş İnan?
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1972 and 1973, and his PhD degree from Stanford University in 1977.
Between 1982 and 2009, he served as the Director of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Stanford University. Prof. Dr. Inan has authored 366 scientific papers with 11,800 citations (h-index=58) and has graduated 60 PhD students as a thesis advisor since 1990.
A Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the American Physical Society (APS), Prof. Inan has served as the US National Committee Chair of the Radioscience Union International (URSI), International Chair of URSI's H Commission (Waves in Plasmas), and Vice President of URSI. In 2007, he was awarded the Allan V. Cox Medal by Stanford University for outstanding achievement in promoting undergraduate research, and in 1998 he was awarded the Tau Beta Pi Award for outstanding teaching achievement at the undergraduate level, also by Stanford University. He has also been recognized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency for his group research. Prof. Inan was also awarded the U.S. Antarctic Service Medal, for which one of the mountains in Antarctica was named "Inan Hill". In 2008, he was awarded the Appleton Prize, given every three years by URSI and the Royal Society, and in 2010 he received the Special Award of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK).