Citizenship Turkish, US Nationality Turkish | Name A. Balantekin Education Yale University | |
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Fields physicist (theoretical) Institutions Yale University
University of Wisconsin-Madison | ||
Akif Baha Balantekin is an American and Turkish physicist.
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He earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1975 and received a Ph.D. from Yale University in the U.S. in 1982.
Balantekin is currently the Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics at Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been in Madison, WI since 1986. Prior to this he was the Eugene P. Wigner Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has served as the Chair of the University of Wisconsin Physics Department until 2011. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle and has been a visiting professor at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany; Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Japan.
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Professional service
He has served as the Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (2005-2010) and the Chair of the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics (2003-2004). He is currently the chair of the Scientific Board of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy.