Oğuzhan Yalvaç

Organisation: General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA), Department of Geological Research

Education: University of Missouri–Columbia, Department of Geological Sciences

Areas of work: Seismology and Seismotectonics

Born in Ankara in 1994, Oğuzhan Yalvaç completed his education through his undergraduate degree in Ankara. He graduated in Geophysical Engineering from Ankara University in 2018.

After graduation, while working at Ankara University’s Technopark and on a related TÜBİTAK project, he received a YLSY scholarship from the Ministry of National Education. Following eight months of English language training at TED University in 2019, he spent six months studying English at the University of Alabama in the United States in 2020.

After completing a master’s degree at the University of Missouri–Columbia in 2021–2023, he began working at MTA as a geophysical engineer with a master’s degree and continues in that role. He is also pursuing a PhD in seismology at Ankara University.