Prof. Dr. Durmuş BOZTUĞ
He was born on 10th of November
in 1957, in Adana. He completed his
secondary education at Adana Karşıyaka High
School; his higher education at Geology
Engineering Department of Hacettepe
University. He took his MS degree in 1983
and doctoral degree in 1988 from the
Graduate School of Natural and Applied
Sciences of the same university.
Between 1980-1988 he worked as a
research assistant at the Department of
Geology Engineering of Hacettepe University.
In 1988, he started to work as a faculty
member at the Department of Geology Engineering
of Cumhuriyet University.
He gave lectures “Magmatic Petrography”
and “Metamorphic Petrography” at the
Department of Geology Engineering to
undergraduate students; “Advanced
Petrography”, “Mineral Separation” and
“Granitioid Petrogenesis” to post graduate
students; and “Isotopic Geology”,
“Geochronology” and “The Geology of Turkey”
(together with H. Temiz) at PhD level.
During his working period he was
awarded with “National Scholarship for MSc
Students, TUBITAK (1981-1983)”, “Research
Scholarship, French Government (Grenoble,
CRPG-Nancy) (1983), “Research Scholarship,
French Government (Grenoble, CRPG-Nancy)
(1990), “Golden Hammer, UCTEA Chamber of
Geological Engineers (Mineralogy-Petrography)
(1993)” and “the most cited top 50 authors”
from the Tectonophysics-Elsevier in 2007.
He benefited from the awards and
scholarships such as “Research Scholarship,
TUBITAK-DFG (Max-Planck Institute for
Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg) (1996)”,
“Research Scholarship, TUBITAK-NATO-B2 (Max-Planck
Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
(2001-2002)”, “Research Scholarship, TUBITAK-DFG
(TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Sachsen)
(2004)”, (Research Scholarship, DAAD (TU
Bergakademie, Freiberg, Sachsen) (2005)” and
“Research Scholarship, TUBITAK-DFG (TU
Bergakademie, Freiberg, Sachsen) (2005)”.
Besides, he took place in many
scientific studies in this period. He
carried out studies such as “Proceedings of
the IV. National Clay Symposium” (together
with H. Yalçın) in 1989, “Symposium on the
iron deposits formed by ophiolite-granitoid
interaction” (together with T. Özer and N.
Otlu) in 1998, “Magmatic Petrogenesis” (together
with N.Otlu) in 2001 and “Guest Editor” (together
with N.Güleç) in 2006. In addition to these
studies, he refreed in scientific journals
such as “Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences,
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,
Mineraological Magazine, International
Journal of Earth Sciences, Tectonophysics,
Geological Journal”. Prof.Dr. Durmus Boztug,
taking office as the President of Tunceli
University, has more than 100 scientific
articles published; more than 30 of them
were published in journals covered by SCI.
