CURRICULUM VITAE
Ali Mostafazadeh (Mustafazade)
(Updated September 2022)
Education:
– B.S. in Physics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 1989
– B.S. in Mathematics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 1989
– Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin (Advisor Bryce S. DeWitt), Austin, 1994
Awards & Honors:
– Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1994
– Outstanding Young Scientist Award (Üstün Başarılı Genç Bilim İnsanı Ödülü), TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences), 2001
– Prof. M. Parlar Research Encouragement Award (Araştırma Teşvik Ödülü), Middle Eastern Technical University, 2001
– Werner von Siemens Excellence Award, Koç University, 2006
– Science Award in Basic Sciences (Bilim Ödülü), TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), 2007
– Elected as a principal member of Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2007
– Outstanding Faculty Award, Faculty of Sciences, Koç University, 2011
– Outstanding Faculty Award, Koç University, 2015
Membership in Scientific Organizations:
– Principal member of Turkish Academy of Sciences, elected by the majority vote of elected members of the Academy in December 2007.
– Member of Science Academy Association of Turkey since January 2013.
– Executive board member of TÜBİTAK’s Research Institute for Fundamental Sciences since 2019.
Academic Positions:
– Graduate Student, Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989-94
– Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, 1994-1995
– Visiting Professor, Sharif University of Technology and Institute for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), 1995
– Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, 1995-1997
– Assistant Professor (1997-1999), Associate Professor (1999-2004), Professor (2004-present) Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Koç University, Istanbul
Editorial Activities:
Member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (World-Scientific, 2004-present), Turkish Journal of Mathematics (TÜBİTAK, 2015-2020), Turkish Journal of Physics (TÜBİTAK 2020-present), Koç University Publications (2011-2014), Regular referee of Phys. Rev. (A, D, X, R, and Lett.), Ann. Phys. (N.Y), J. Math. Phys., J. Phys. A, Phys. Lett. A., EPL, Euro. Phys. J.-Plus, etc.
Research Interests:
Differential geometric and topological methods in theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, quantum cosmology, supersymmetry and its generalizations, pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians, scattering theory, spectral singularities, mathematical optics.
Publications:
Three books (Nova Science Publishers 2001, Springer 2003, Koç University Publications 2013) and 157 research papers in journals covered by Science Citation Index (SCI). For details see the publication list.
Citations (as of September 2022, source ISI):
Total number of citations > 6500, citation per paper > 40, h-index=34, Most cited paper: A. Mostafazadeh, J. Math. Phys. 43, 205-214 (2002) cited > 1090 times.