C Cem Tasan

Professor Tasan is the POSCO Associate Professor of Metallurgy. He earned his BS and MS in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey. He carried out his PhD work in the Department of Mechanical Engineering 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 the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) as a faculty member in 2016 and was granted tenure in 2022.