Faculty and Researchers

C. Cem Tasan

Faculty Director, MIT-Netherlands Program
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Professor Tasan is the POSCO Associate Professor of Metallurgy. He earned his BS and MS in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at METU, Middle East Technical University, in Ankara, Turkey. He carried out his PhD work in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He then moved to Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany, where he was appointed first as a postdoc, and then as a group leader. He joined DMSE as a faculty member in 2016 and was granted tenure in 2022.

Expertise
International education
Materials science
Physical metallurgy
Solid mechanics
In situ microscop
Characterization tools and methods
Micro-mechanisms in metallic materials
Damage-resistant microstructures and alloys