Prof. SAİT HALICIOĞLU

Biography

Sait Halıcıoğlu was born in 1961 in the Tosya district of Kastamonu, Turkey. He completed his elementary education in Tosya, middle and high school at Kastamonu Teacher Training High School, and his undergraduate education at the Mathematics Department of Ankara University Faculty of Science. In 1987, he received his master's degree from the Mathematics Department of Gazi University and earned his doctoral degree from the Mathematics Department of Aberystwyth University in Wales in 1992. His doctoral thesis was titled "Representations of Weyl Groups".

He began his academic career as a research assistant at the Faculty of Science at Gazi University in 1984 and has been continuing his academic career at the Mathematics Department of Ankara University Faculty of Science since 1987. He became an associate professor in 1994 and was appointed as a professor in the Department of Algebra and Number Theory in 2000.

He has published numerous articles in international journals indexed in SCI/SCI-Expanded and presented papers at national and international conferences. He has been involved in international projects as a project manager and researcher. He is the author of books titled "Group Representations", "Abstract Mathematics", "Introduction to Algebra" and "The Profile of Basic Mathematical Concepts" and was awarded the TÜBA-TEÇEP 2013 Significant Works Award for his book "Abstract Mathematics".  He has supervised the theses of thirteen master's and six doctoral students. In 2013, he served on the committee for developing the "Mathematics Curriculum" organized by the Ministry of Education and TÜBİTAK. He has also served as an editorial board member of the International Electronic Journal of Algebra (IEJA), which started publishing in 2007 and is indexed in many important indexes, and continues to serve as a referee for national and international journals.

He served as Vice Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Ankara University Faculty of Science from 1997 to 2001 and as Chair of the Department of Algebra and Number Theory from 1997 to 2018. Besides his academic studies, he served as the Acting Dean of Ankara University Faculty of Science from 15.10.2020 to 11.08.2021 and has been serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Science at Ankara University since 12.08.2021.