RECTOR
Prof. Dr. Cemal Yıldız
Prof. Cemal Yıldız, was born in Düzce in 1964, completed his primary education in Düzce and his secondary education in Bolu and Germany. After graduating from Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of German Language and Literature in 1988, he started to work as a research assistant at the Department of German Language Education of Atatürk Education Faculty at Marmara University in 1989. He obtained his master's degree in 1992 and his doctorate degree in 1994 from the same university. Prof. Yıldız received the title of assistant professor in 1996 and that of associate professor in 1998 and became a professor in 2004. He has taught courses in Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching Methods, Linguistics and Textlinguistics at both undergraduate and graduate levels at Marmara University and Yeditepe University. Prof. Cemal Yıldız, who on a German DAAD scholarship conducted research related to his doctorate field at Duisburg and Bochum-Ruhr Universities in Germany in the years between 1992 and 1993 and undertook research into linguistics, foreign language and mother tongue teaching at Ruhr, Duisburg, Koblenz, Frankfurt, Berlin and Weingarten Pedagogical Universities of Germany for short periods in the years: 1998, 2001, 2003, 2007 and 2011, has several articles and papers published in international and national journals on linguistics, textlinguistics, language acquisition, foreign language and mother tongue teaching. He served as the Director of School of Foreign Languages at Marmara University in 2014 and as the Education Counselor of the Berlin Embassy of the Turkish Republic in the years between 2014 and 2021. As of August 2012, he served as the General Manager of Higher Education and Foreign Education until June 2022, and then he was appointed as the Rector of the Turkish-German University in June 2022. Prof. Cemal Yıldız can speak German and English. He is married and has two children. |
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VICE RECTOR
Prof. Dr. Leyla Coşan
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VICE-RECTOR
Prof. Dr. Yunus Ziya Arslan
Prof. Dr. Yunus Ziya Arslan received his bachelor's degree in 2002, his master's degree in 2005, and his doctorate in 2009 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul University. During his doctoral studies, he spent six months as a visiting researcher at the University of Calgary, Canada. Between 2018 and 2019, he served as a visiting research professor at the BioMotion Center at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for one year, and as a visiting researcher at the Orthopaedics Clinic of Heidelberg University with a DAAD scholarship in 2022 and 2025. He served as an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa until August 2020, and in the same year, he was appointed professor at the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Department of the Institute of Science at Turkish-German University.
Prof. Dr. Arslan served as the Director of the Institute of Sciences at Turkish-German University from 2021 to 2025. He has been serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Science at Turkish-German University since June 2022. He was appointed Vice Rector of Turkish-German University as of September 2025. His research interests include musculoskeletal biomechanics, computational modelling and simulation of human movement, computer-aided analysis of movement disorders, and the mechanical design, analysis, and production of biomedical and dental devices.
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GENERAL COORDINATOR
Prof. Dr. Ferit Küçükay
Prof. Dr. Ferit Küçükay was appointed as the “General Coordinator” of the Turkish-German University on January 1, 2022 by the “K-TDU” Consortium supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Having completed his high school education in Istanbul and Germany, Küçükay received his master’s education in mechanical engineering, his doctorate degree and the title of associate professor at Munich Technical University. He held various managerial positions in the R&D department of BMW automobile company in Munich for 12 years. He was subsequently appointed as a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He assumed the responsibility as the President of the Institute of Vehicle Technology, the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the founding board member of the Saxony State Scientific Automotive Research Center (NFF).
Apart from Germany and various European countries, Prof. Dr. Ferit Küçükay worked as an industry and technology consultant especially in the USA, China and Japan. Presiding over international congresses and managing more than 80 doctoral studies, Prof. Dr. Ferit Küçükay has 4 books, more than 400 articles and consultancy, membership and chairmanship in many international journals and research institutions, including the chairman of the advisory council of TÜV Nord Automotive group. |
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