Prof. Dr. Ahmet YOZGATLIGİL was born in 1975, completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at METU Mechanical Engineering Department and his Ph.D. in energy at Drexel University, USA in 2005. He continued his studies as a faculty member at the University of Maryland in USA and as a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
In 2007, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East Technical University as a faculty member. He became Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2019. In METU he had served as Vice Dean at the Faculty of Engineering between 2016, Advisor to the President between 2016-2019 and Vice President responsible for research, innovation and internationalization between 2019-2020. At the same time he had served as Vice President of the Board of Directors of METUTECH.
He has been a visiting researcher at NASA Glenn Research Center, NIST and Argonne National Laboratory in USA, JAMIC (Japan Microgravity Center) in Japan and CNRS in France, where he worked on engine technologies and combustion.
He served as the chairman of the board of directors and center director at Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, and as a board member at METU MEMS Center and TÜBİTAK UZAY. He served as Vice President of TÜBİTAK and President of TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center. YOZGATLIGİL also served as the President of the 47 membered EUREKA network, headquartered in Brussels, until June 2023.
Prof. Dr. Ahmet YOZGATLIGİL served as Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology between June 2023 to August 2024.
Prof. Dr. Ahmet YOZGATLIGİL was appointed as the President of the Middle East Technical University by the Presidential Decree numbered 2024/289 dated 16 August 2024, and then as a member of the Board of Directors of TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) by the Presidential Decree numbered 2024/316 dated 14 September 2024.
Prof. Dr. Ahmet YOZGATLIGİL has been serving as a Member of Board of Directors of ASELSAN since the Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting held on September 22, 2023, as a Member of Board of Directors of MKE since January 2025. Also he is serving as a Member of Board of Directors of SAHA Istanbul..
YOZGATLIGİL, who is married with two children, has a good command of English.
