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Okay Çimen, 
Date and Place of Birth: February 4, 1986 / Turkey

Research

Interests

Rare earth elements, critical raw minerals, carbonatites, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, geochronology, isotope geochemistry, regional geology, environmental geochemistry.

Academic

Experience

Associate Professor / Munzur University (Turkey) / 2020-still

Founding Director of Munzur University Rare Earth Elements Application and Research Center / 2019-2022

Vice Coordinator at Strategic Raw Materials and Advanced Technology Applications Department / 2021-2022

Assistant Professor / Munzur University (Turkey) / 2017-2020
 
Postdoctoral Researcher / University of Notre Dame (USA) / 2018
 
Research Scholar / University of Notre Dame (USA) / 2015 
 
Research & Teaching Assistant / Middle East Technical University (Turkey) / 2011 - 2016
 

Education

​PhD - Middle East Technical University 
Department of Geological Engineering / 2016
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MSc - Ankara University
Department of Geological Engineering / 2011
 
BSc -  Ankara University
Department of Geological Engineering / 2009
 
2nd BSc - Anadolu University
Department of Public Administration /2012
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Dissertations

 
PhD- The Petrology and Geochronology of the Igneous Rocks from the Çangaldağ Metamorphic Complex and the Çangaldağ Pluton (Central Pontides-Turkey), Central Pontides. Middle East Technical University, 254 p. 2016
 
MSc- Rare Earth Elements Contents and Environmental Features of Organic Matter Rich Rocks in the South of Dağşeyhler Village (Bolu-Göynük). Ankara University, Ankara, 96 p. 2011.

 

BSc- Economic Geology of Rare Earth Elements. Graduation Project in Geological Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, 45 p. (unpublished). 2009.
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Skills

Instrument;

MC-LA-ICP-MS

Element2-HR- ICP-MS

Attom-HR-ICP-MS

Cameca SX-50 Electron Microprobe

Edax Orbis Micro-XRF

 

 

Software;

Corel Draw

Adobe Illustrator

Freehand

Global Mapper

Iolite3 

Glitter

 

 

Hobbies;

Football

Kick-Boxing

Tennis

Billards

Travelling

Music

Cinema

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Languages

Turkish (Native)

English

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