Feryal Özel

By Bahar.nefli
  • Period: 2002 BCE to 2005 BCE

    Big Ideas

    Özel, who moved to Tucson, Arizona in the last year of her doctoral program and received a Hubble postdoctoral scholarship, worked at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies between 2002 and 2005. In 2003, she was included in the "Big Ideas" list along with the world's most well-known scientists and was recognized for his contributions in the field of neutron stars, black holes and magnetars.
  • Period: 1996 BCE to 2002 BCE

    USA and marriage

    After a year spent in Europe, she returned to the USA and was accepted to Harvard University's doctoral program. She completed her doctorate in astrophysics in 2002. She married astrophysicist Demetrios Psaltis in 2001. From this marriage, they had 2 daughters named Deniz and Selin.
  • Period: 1992 BCE to 1996 BCE

    University and degrees

    Between 1992 and 1995, she completed her Physics and Applied Mathematics education at Columbia University, ranking second in her school and receiving a High Honor Degree. The following year she spent time at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she completed her master's degree in physics.
  • Period: 1975 BCE to 1992 BCE

    Birth and highschool

    She was born in Istanbul in 27/05/1975.Feryal Özel, whose parents are doctors, graduated from Üsküdar American High School.