Background and career
Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör (Turkish: [ˈali ˈmehmet ˈdʒeɫal ˈʃænɟœɾ]; born 24 March 1955) is a Turkish geologist. He is retired from the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering.
Şengör is a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society, Academia Europaea (1990), the United States National Academy of Sciences (2000), Russian Academy of Sciences (2006), German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2012), Austrian Academy of Sciences (2015), Leibniz Society of Sciences (2016), European Geosciences Union (2018), Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2018), Accademia nazionale delle scienze (2023), Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2024), and Chinese Academy of Sciences (2025). He is a recipient of Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille — the highest distinction of the Geologische Vereinigung e.V.

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