Mustafa Erdik

Dr. Mustafa Erdik is a Professor Emeritus of Earthquake Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, and an adjunct faculty member at Rose School, IUSS, Pavia. He currently serves as a member of the executive board of T Rupt Technolog Inc. and the Turkish Earthquake Foundation. He has received his BSc degree from Middle East Technical University, and his MSc and PhD degrees from Rice University, USA. He has worked with UN organizations and several international foundations around the world on earthquake engineering problems and has authored about 340 scientific publications. He has an h-index of 42 and his papers have about 7000 citations He is the recipient of the United Nations' Sasakawa Disaster Prevention Award; NATO’s Science for Peace – Summit Prize; Science Award given by Rotary Foundation; Bruce Bolt Medal given by Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, USA; Prof. Nicholas Ambraseys Distinguished Lecture Award given by the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and; Science Award by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. His professional expertise encompasses earthquake hazard and risk assessment and structural control.