Dr. Selman Nas is the Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Deputy Director of the Graduate School of Sciences. In addition to his academic career, Dr. Nas has substantial industry experience. From 2016 to 2023, he served as Vice President for Communication and Earth Observation Satellite Programs in Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. During the same period, he also held board memberships in various defense companies. Furthermore, he has 8 years of experience in airline operations, having served as the Head of Training and Quality Assurance at Turkish Airlines.Between 1995 and 2008, Dr. Selman Nas was a faculty member at Istanbul Technical University’s Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also has academic experience in the medical field, having worked as a Research Faculty Member in the Pediatric Cardiology Department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Selman Nas’s current research interests include Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Heat Transfer, Aerodynamics, and High-Performance Computing.
Throughout his career, Dr. Nas has gained extensive experience both as an academician and an administrator. He earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995 and his M.Sc. from the same university in 1990. He received his B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University’s Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1987.
