Tosun Terzioğlu

Who is Tosun Terzioğlu?

Tosun Terzioğlu is a Turkish mathematician and academic administrator.

Terzioğlu was born in İstanbul, Turkey. He graduated from Robert College in 1961. He studied mathematics at Newcastle University, UK and received his BS in 1965. He earned his PhD from Frankfurt University in Germany in 1968. Between 1968-1994, he taught at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. He worked as a visiting professor at Michigan University between 1975–1976 and University of Wuppertal in Germany between 1982-1983. He had been the president of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey between 1992-1997. He has been the president of Sabanci University, Istanbul since then.

His father, Nazim Terzioglu was also a mathematician.