Committees

Conference Honorary Chair
Suat İ. GÜNSEL Conference Honorary Chair, Founding President of Near East University, North Cyprus
Conference Chair
İrfan S. GÜNSEL Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Near East University, North Cyprus
Organising Committee Honorary Chair
Ergün TOĞROL Honorary President of Turkish Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Turkey
Organising Committee Chairs
Feyza ÇİNİCİOĞLU Immediate Past President of Turkish Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Turkey, Özyeğin University, Turkey
Cavit ATALAR President of Earthquake and Soil Research and Evaluation Center, Near East University, North Cyprus
Organising Committee Members
Rasin DÜZCEER President of Turkish Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Turkey, Kasktaş, A.Ş. Turkey
Ahmet SAĞLAMER Past President of Turkish Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Turkey
Mehmet BERİLGEN Yıldız Technical University, Turkey
İlknur BOZBEY İstanbul University – Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
Kemal Önder ÇETİN Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Özer ÇİNİCİOĞLU General Secretary of Turkish Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Turkey
Braja M. DAS California State University Sacramento, USA
Turan DURGUNOĞLU Boğaziçi University, Turkey,
Alp GÖKALP Kasktaş, A.Ş. Turkey
Erol GÜLER Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Nejan HUVAJ Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Banu İKİZLER Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey
Havvanur KILIÇ Yıldız Technical University, Turkey
Müge İNANIR Geogrup, Turkey
Recep İYİSAN İstanbul Technical University, Turkey
Kutay ÖZAYDIN Yıldız Technical University, Turkey
Eun C. SHIN Vice-President of the ISSMGE for Asia, Korea
Ivan VANICEK Past Vice-President of the ISSMGE for Europe, Czech Republic
Thomas ZIMMIE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
International Advisory Board
Atilla ANSAL Özyeğin University, Turkey
Sivakumar Babu President, Indian Geotechnical Society, India
Fatma BALIGH Past Vice-President of the ISSMGE for Africa, Egypt
Ayşe Pekrioğlu BALKIS Cyprus Internatiol University, North Cyprus
Huriye BİLSEL Cyprus Internatiol University, North Cyprus
Mounir BOUASSIDA Past Vice-President of the ISSMGE for Africa, Tunisia
Luljeta BOZO President, Albanian Geotechnical Society, Albania
Heinz BRANDL Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Jean-Louis BRIAUD Immediate Past President of the ISSMGE, USA
Moonkyung CHUNG Vice-President, Korean Geotechnical Society, Korea
Ayşe EDİNÇLİLER President Turkish Geosynthetics Society, Turkey
Tuncer EDİL University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Pedro FERREIRA University College London, United Kingdom
Jana FRANKOVSKA Chairwoman, Czech and Slovak Committee for SMGE, Slovakia
Antonio GENS Vice-President of the ISSMGE for Europe, Spain
Thomas L.HOLZER USGS, Menlo Park, USA
Mahdi O. Karkush President Iraqi Scientific Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Iraq
Nilay KESKİN Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey
Suzanne LACASSE Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Norway
Lyesse LALOUI Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Mustafa LAMAN Liverpool University, United Kingdom
Madhira MADHAV Past Vice-President of the ISSMGE for Asia, India
Murat MOLLAMAHMUTOĞLU Gazi University, Turkey
Mario MANASSERO Politecnico Di Torino, Italy
Maher OMAR Sharjah University, UAE
Akın ÖNALP Okan University, Turkey
Gürkan ÖZDEN Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey
Jovan PAPIC President, Macedonian Association for Geotechnics, North Macedonia
Chittaranjan PATRA Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, India
Kok Kwang PHOON Provost, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Zalihe Nalbantoglu SEZAI Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus
Siva SIVAKUGAN James Cook University, Australia
Aykut ŞENOL İstanbul Technical University, Turkey
Alejo O. SFRISO Vice-President of the ISSMGE for South America, Arjantina
Khaled SOBHAN Florida Atlantic University, USA
Barış TRAK Past Technical Director Council of Europe Development Bank, France
Selçuk TOPRAK Gebze University, Turkey
Mojca Ravnikar TURK President Slovenian Geotechnical Society, Slovenia
Erol TUTUMLUER University of Illinois, USA
Mehmet TÜMAY Louisiana State University, USA
Eriş UYGAR Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus
Gülgün YILMAZ Anadolu University, Turkey
Chungsik YOO President International Geosynthetics Society, Korea
Yeliz YÜKSELEN-AKSOY Dokuz Eylül University, TURKEY
Şahin ZAİMOĞLU Atatürk University, TURKEY
Askar ZHUSUPBEKOV Past Vice-President of the ISSMGE for Asia, Kazakhstan