Prof. TAMER AKAN

Biography

Tamer Akan received the B.S. degree in physics from the Istanbul University in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in Plasma Physics from the Eskisehir Osmangazi University (ESOGU) in 2003 in Turkey. He also worked at the cooperation project between ESOGU and National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics (INFLPR), Bucharest, in Romania and he is co-founder of the Plasma Physics Laboratory of ESOGU. He is also founder and the Director of Cold Plasma Laboratory of ESOGU. He was a Visiting Scientist in INFLPR in 1998. He worked at the Plasma & Spectroscopy Laboratory of Constanta Ovidius University in 2003 in Romania. He was a Post-doctoral Researcher at Old Dominion University's Applied Plasma Technology Laboratory, Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics in 2006 in USA. He is currently a professor with the Physics. Dr. Akan's research interests are vacuum arcs, applications of non-equilibrium gaseous discharges, cold plasmas, plasma medicine and sterilization process with non-thermal plasmas.