Assoc. Prof. Özkan Kale

Biography

Özkan Kale is a faculty member at the Department of Civil Engineering at the TED University. He received his B.Sc. (2005) from Dokuz Eylul University, and M.Sc. (2009) and Ph.D. (2014) in Structural Engineering from Middle East Technical University. Dr. Kale worked as a research associate at the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute in 2015, and at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University in 2016.

Dr. Kale has over 10-year academic experience in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology. The main research interests of Dr. Kale are earthquake response and design spectra, ground motion data processing, development and testing of ground motion predictive models, probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, and uncertainties in ground motion parameters for seismic evaluation of structures. He has been involved as a researcher, principal investigator or consultant to various national and international seismic hazard projects.