Prof. İLKER BEKİR TOPÇU

Dr. İlker Bekir Topçu is currently professor in the Civil Engineering Department, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey. He graduated from Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey, in 1984 and joined the teaching profession as a research assistant in 1982 at the Anadolu University. He obtained his Ph.D. from İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, in 1988. He has worked as a visiting scientist at the Lehigh University, from 1990 to 1992, and Northwestern University, from 1996 to 1997. He has published 217 refereed papers in international and national journals, 252 proceedings papers in international and national congress and symposiums, 13 book chapters and 57 actual papers. His papers cited more then 13500 (h-index: 51). He supervised 20 PhD and 44 Ms Thesis. His research interests are lightweight, heavyweight and high-strength concretes, concretes using industrial wastes such as fly ash, bottom ash, silica fume, waste tire, waste glass and waste concrete, Khorasan mortars, concrete as a composite material, using admixtures and additives in concrete, Ferrocement and using artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic techniques in concrete technology. He is currently supervising 1 Ph D and 6 Ms Thesis. In 2018, ASCE 2017 Outstanding Reviewer was selected. In 2019, it became the 4th in the Top Ten Awards given by the ESOGÜ Rectorate for academic publications and 11th in 2020. In July 2020 prepared by a team of US and Dutch scientists, scientists around the world who took part in the 196 most influential people from science to the list of Turkey. In an article prepared by Stanford University researchers in October 2020, it was among the top 2% of the names in the world in the evaluation made according to various citation indicators such as citation, h-index, hm-index. He has been ranked 30th in the world and in 1st in Turkey amongst 27014 authors in the subject area of "Building and Construction" in a list of top scientists subject-wise, this independent study conducted by Stanford University Scientists. In World Scientist and University Rankings 2021, it was ranked 1st in ESOGÜ and 190th in Turkey with h-index 45, i-10 index 83 and 8711 citations. He was also deemed worthy of the "Eskişehir Osmangazi University 2021 Honor Award" for his contributions to the field of Building Materials with his scientific studies that he has carried out for more than 40 years in his department and for pioneering the establishment of laboratories in this field at university. In 2022, he was nominated for the TUBITAK service award by the ESOGU Senate. In 2022, a total of 896 scientists from Turkey took part in the list of the most cited scientists worldwide in 2021, and among them, 9 of them were ranked at the top (within 0.3% in the world). AD Scientific Index -2023 ranked 1st among 395 faculty members from our University, 4th in Turkey and 186th in the world in the AD Scientific Index ranking. He entered the list of the most influential scientists in 2023. According to Stanford University's 2023 ranking, ESOGÜ ranked 1st in the TOP 100,000 or the top 2% in its field. In 2024, Stanford University was included in the 2024 rankings, again in the 2 percentile in two categories, "career-long impact" and "annual impact" from ESOGÜ. In 2025, he received the ESOGÜ Certificate of Appreciation for her publications in the Q1, Q2 and Q3 categories in 2024. It was stated that she was ranked 10177th in the world and 20th in Türkiye in the 2025 Edition of the Best Scientists in Materials Science ranking published by the Research.com team. According to 2025 Elsevier data, ESOGÜ ranked 1st in the world in the 2% segment in its field for the Entire Career and only for the year 2025.