Cem Tasan
MRL Director,
POSCO Associate Professor of Metallurgy
Research
Professor Cemal Cem Tasan explores the boundaries of physical metallurgy, solid mechanics, and in situ microscopy to design new alloys with exceptional damage resistance. His research group focuses on developing new in situ characterization tools and methods; improving the physical understanding of transformation, deformation, and damage of micro-mechanisms in metallic materials; and designing damage-resistant microstructures and alloys.
Biography
Professor Tasan is the POSCO 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.
Contact
Email: tasan@mit.edu
Phone: 617-253-3318
Website: https://tasan.mit.edu/
Office: 8-202
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cem-tasan-1131446b/
Administrative Assistant:
Maryann Turner
Email: maryan23@mit.edu
Phone: 617-252-1104
Office: 8-115
