Nationality Turkish Name Umran Inan | Fields Electrical engineering | |
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Institutions Koc UniversityStanford University Notable awards Allan V. Cox Medal of Stanford for Faculty Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research (2007) Education Stanford University (1977), Middle East Technical University (1973), Middle East Technical University (1972) Books Engineering electromagnetics, Electromagnetic waves, Principles of Plasma Physics f, Numerical Electromagnetics: The FDT, Engineering Electromagnetics and Waves |
The young universities summit 2014 umran inan
Ümran Savaş İnan (1950 in Erzincan, Turkey) is a scientist at Koç University and Stanford University in the field of geophysics and very low frequency radio science. He received from Stanford in 1977 under the tutelage of Robert Helliwell. Since Fall 2009, İnan has been the president of Koç University.
Contents
- The young universities summit 2014 umran inan
- Eitim ve Merak Umran nan TEDxKoUniversity
- Life and career
- Membership and Awards
- Research at Stanford
- nan Peak
- References

Eğitim ve Merak | Umran İnan | TEDxKoçUniversity
Life and career

Ümran İnan received his Bachelor's in 1972 and M.S. in 1973 from the Middle East Technical University. He conducted his doctoral research during four years at Stanford University, receiving his PhD in 1977 from Electrical Engineering. Ümran İnan later joined the staff of Stanford University as Research Affiliate and in 1982 was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He became associate professor in 1985 and receiving the professor title at Stanford University in 1992.

In 1997 he was appointed Director of Space, Telecommunications and Radio Science Laboratories (STAR) connected to the Stanford University and continued his duty here until September 2009. During his academic career at Stanford he worked in areas geophysics, near-space, ionospheric and atmospheric physics, radiation belts, electromagnetic wave-particle interaction, and very low frequency radioscience. İnan has had about 50 PhD students so far.

He has been the president of Koç University since 2009. Currently, the research group at Stanford University is conducting observations from over 50 different spots on seven continents and also from a variety of world-orbiting satellites. He became Professor Emeritus at Stanford in 2011, and remains active there along with his duties at Koç University.

İnan has over 323 refereed scientific and technical papers.
With his brother, Aziz İnan, he has authored three textbooks on electromagnetics:
Membership and Awards
Umran İnan has been active member of various organizations since 1973 and he has been awarded by many institutions so far.
As a member of International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Radio Science Association, The American Physics Society, The Electromagnetic Academy, Academy of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi Academy and TUBA, he was also awarded by Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA with group achievement award in years 1983, 1998 and 2004.
Research at Stanford
Research activities at Stanford include
İnan Peak
Inan Peak rising to 2,451 metres (8,041 ft) 1.15 miles (1.85 km) west of Mount Kempe in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica was named after him by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994.