Education B.S., METU, Ankara, Turkey, 1972 M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977 Awards AIChE Lawrence K. Cecil Award, 1991 NATO Science Fellow, 1972-1976

Chemical reaction engineering, catalysis and combustion

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