Osman Adiguzel PhD

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from the Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey, in 1974 and received a PhD degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post-doctoral research scientist from 1986-1987, and his studies focused on the shape memory effect in shape memory alloys. His academic life started following graduation by becoming an assistant at Dicle University in January 1975. He became a professor in 1996 at Firat University in Turkey, and retired on November 28, 2019, due to the age limit of 67, following an academic life of 45 years. He supervised 5 PhD theses and 3 M.Sc theses and published over 80 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia at the international level with contributions.

Adiguzel served as the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. Also, he joined in the last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair, organized by different companies. Additionally, he joined over 180 online conferences in the same way during the pandemic period of 2020-2023. Dr. Adiguzel served as the director of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University, from 1999-2004. He received a certificate awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of the significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates the cooperation of his group and interest in the Powder Diffraction File.