Ergin Atalar#
| Membership Number: | 3539 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
| Homepage(s): | http://umram.bilkent.edu.tr/~ergin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Director, National Magnetic Research Center, Bilkent University, Ankara Turkey
- 2005 - present Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University Ankara Turkey
- 2004 - 2005 Professor, Depts of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and ECE, JHU, Baltimore MD USA
- 1998 - 2004 Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD USA
- 1994 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD USA
- 1993 - 1994 Instructor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland USA
- 1991 - 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland USA
- 1988 - 1991 Instructor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University Ankara Turkey
- 1986 - 1988 Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University Ankara Turkey
- 1981 - 1986 Research and Development Engineer, PETAS, Ankara, Turkey
Fields of Scholarship
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Interventional magnetic resonance imaging
- Safety of magnetic resonance imaging
- Transmit array technology for magnetic resonance imaging
Honours and Awards
- 1995 Frank T. McClure Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
- 1999 Samuel A. Levine Young Investigator Award, American Heart Association
- K. A. Shunk, J. A. C. Lima, C. Rochitte, E. Atalar, Transesophageal MRI of Thoracic Aorta in Vivo in Patients with and without Atherosclerosis
- 2000 Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award, American Heart Association
- J. M. Serfaty, X. Yang, H. H. Quick, P. Aksit, E. Atalar MR-guided coronary artery intervention
- 2001 Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award, American Heart Association
- X. Yang, E. Atalar, D. Lim J. M. Serfaty, D. Wang, A. Kumar, L. Cheng In vivo MR imaging of catheter-based vascular gene transfer
- 2006 Science Award, TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)
- 2011 Fellow, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology
- 2012 Member, the Science Academy (Turkey)
