After graduating from Üsküdar American High School in Istanbul, Prof. Dr. Feryal Özel graduated from Columbia University with a degree in physics and applied mathematics. She received her master’s degree in physics from the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark and her PhD in astrophysics from Harvard University in the USA.
Prof. Dr. Feryal Özel is currently a professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Arizona, as well as Chair of the NASA Astrophysics Committee, Chair of the NASA Lynx Space Telescope Science and Technical Team, and Chair of the Event Horizon Telescope Science Council and the Modelling and Analysis Working Group.
He has made a name for himself with his studies on the formation of galaxies, the death of stars, and black holes. In the last year of his doctoral studies, he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study. Feryal Özel, who was a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute in 2012 and Berkeley Miller Institute in 2014, is also a member of the Academy of Science in Turkey. Feryal Özel, who has achieved great success in her career life, presented the first black hole photograph taken in 2019 to the public in addition to her academic education and studies. She went down in history as the only Turkish scientist among 200 scientists who imaged a black hole for the first time in the world.
