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Feryal Özel

Feryal Özel is a Turkish American astrophysicist born in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2022, Özel is the department chair and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics in Atlanta. She was previously a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in the Astronomy Department and Steward Observatory.

Education
The following list summarizes Prof. Özel's education path: • 1992 - Üsküdar American Academy, İstanbul, Turkey • 1996 - BSc in Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York City • 1997 - MSc in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen • 2002 - PhD in Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA ==Honors and awards==
Honors and awards
• Breakthrough Prize, 2020 • Chair, Astrophysics Advisory Committee (APAC), NASA, 2019 • Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2016 • Visiting Miller Professorship, University of California Berkeley, 2014 • Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society, 2013 • Bart J. Bok Prize, Harvard University, 2010 • Lucas Award, San Diego Astronomy Association, 2010 • Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Foundation, 2007 • Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002–2005 • Distinguished Scholar Award, Daughters of Atatürk Foundation, 2003 • Keck Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, 2002 • Van Vleck Fellowship, Harvard University, 1999 • Kostrup Prize, Niels Bohr Institute, 1997 • Niels Bohr Institute Graduate Fellowship, 1996–1997 • Applied Mathematics Faculty Award, Columbia University, 1996 • Fu Foundation Scholarship, Columbia University, 1994–1996 • Research Fellowship, CERN, 1995 • Turkish Health and Education Foundation Scholarship, 1992-1994 ==References==
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