Prof.Dr Tuncay Taymaz received a Ph.D. degree in the field of Earthquake Seismology and Geophysics from University of Cambridge (England, U.K) at Darwin College on 23 March 1991 after obtaining his B.Sc. degree in Geophysical Engineering from Karadeniz Technical University (Trabzon, Turkey) on 5 June 1985. He is currently a Professor of Seismology and Geophysics at Istanbul Technical University (ITU, Istanbul, Turkey). He has received numerous national and international science prizes and awards for scientific excellence. His research interests span a wide range of topics from earthquake source studies and tsunami simulations to crustal and lithospheric structures, anisotropic seismology, and 3D multi-scale full-waveform tomography using super-computers and state-of-art seismographic observations on land and marine environments. He has co-edited and co-published special publications books and special issues at prestigious distinguished Earth Science societies and WoS ISI journals. Professor Taymaz is in close cooperation with Springer-Nature, and presently oversees as one of Book Series Editor for Springer Publications (Japan), Advances in Geological Science. He has organized many prestigious workshops, symposium, tutorial seminars, and recently The Humboldt Kolleg-2016 Advances in Earthquake Seismology and Geodynamic Modelling supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
