29/06/2026
Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences faculty member and EFSUN and SUNUM researcher Prof. Dr. Ali Koşar has been elected as a Full Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).
The Academy has three categories of membership: Full Members, Associate Members, and Honorary Members. Election to Full or Associate Membership is carried out through a nomination submitted to the Presidency of the Academy by existing Full Members or by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) or the Executive Board of TÜBİTAK with a written official support letter. Candidates are then evaluated and accepted by the Academy Council, followed by the approval of the members of the General Assembly representing the relevant scientific field.
Full Members are selected from among distinguished Turkish scientists, who have received awards or medals from nationally or internationally recognized organizations, have discoveries, inventions, theories, or models named after them, whose names appear in classic textbooks or review articles, and who have received a high number of citations in widely recognized international scientific citation indexes.
Prof. Dr. Ali Koşar
Prof. Dr. Ali Koşar completed his undergraduate education in Mechanical Engineering at Boğaziçi University, and then received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY, USA). He continued his postdoctoral studies at the same institution after 2006. His main research areas have been MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems), heat and fluid flow at the micro/nano scale, forced convection, two-phase flow, cavitation, microfluidic systems, and their biomedical and energy applications. Prof. Dr. Koşar aims to address the knowledge gap regarding heat transfer and fluid mechanics at the micro and nano scales, to present experimental data, and to develop design guidelines for future cooling and microfluidic systems. With these comprehensive studies, he won the 2025 Eczacıbaşı Medical Science Award, the 2025 YÖK Outstanding Achievement Award, and the ITU 2025 Engineering Science Award. Ali Koşar is a full member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).
