Faculty Deans

Prof. Bülent Mengüç earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and his PhD in Marketing from Marmara University. He has pursued his academic career at universities in Turkey, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and rejoined Özyeğin University in September 2026. Throughout his career, Prof. Mengüç has combined research and teaching with significant academic leadership responsibilities. He served as Head of the Department of Business Administration and Founding Dean of the Faculty of Business at Kadir Has University, and as Head of the Marketing Department at Leeds University Business School and Illinois State University. His research focuses on marketing and related business disciplines, and his work has appeared in leading international academic journals. During his tenure at Brock University, he was awarded the “Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence”. He has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses, particularly in marketing and quantitative research methods. He remains actively engaged in research and scholarly publishing, serving as an Associate Editor for international academic journals and as a member of the editorial boards of several leading journals. He has been a member of the Science Academy since 2017.

Prof. Dr. Okan Örsan Özener received his B.Sc (2001) and M.S. (2003) degrees in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University. In 2006, he obtained his M.S. degree in Operations Research and in 2008 his Ph. D in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He worked as a research assistant at Middle East Technical University between 2001 and 2003, and at Georgia Institute of Technology between 2003 and 2008. His research interests are in data science, data-driven optimization, integer/combinatorial optimization, machine learning, non-cooperative/cooperative game theory and supply chain management applications. Prof. Özener has been a faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering since 2008 and has served as the Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering between 2012-2022 and as the Vice Dean of the Engineering Faculty from 2022-2024. He was appointed as Deputy Dean of The Faculty of Engineering and Deputy Director Graduate School of Engineering as of January 2025.

Prof. Dr. Ali İzzet Tekcan completed his undergraduate education in psychology at Boğaziçi University in 1989. He received his MA in cognitive psychology in 1996 and his PhD in 1996 from The American University (Washington, DC). He worked as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Boğaziçi University between 1998 and 2024, during which time he served as Department Head (2010-2012, 2022-2023), Dean of Students (2004-2006), and Vice Rector for Academic Affairs (2012-2021). He was a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds in 2008-2009 and at Aarhus University in 2010 and 2018. He has received the TÜBA Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2001), the Outstanding Achievement in Research Award (2001) and the Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award (2020) from the Boğaziçi University Foundation. His research interests include autobiographical and social memory processes, self-memory relationship, and memory processes in psychopathologies. Prof. Dr. Tekcan joined the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Özyeğin University in February 2024 and was appointed as a Senate Member in September 2024. As of July 16th 2026, he was appointed as Acting Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Burçin Ünlü received his BSc and MSc degrees in Physics from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1996 and Boğaziçi University in 1998, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2004. He then worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine in the Tu & Yuen Functional Onco-Imaging lab (Department of Radiological Sciences, School of Medicine) for five years. During his postdoctoral studies, he focused on medical imaging and medical physics. Between 2009-2023, he was a faculty member in the Physics Department at Boğaziçi University, serving as department head from 2018-2020 and 2022-2023. In 2017-2018, he worked at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Biomedical Physics at Stanford University for one year with the support of a Fulbright scholarship. Additionally, he spent 6 months at the Hokkaido University School of Medicine working on proton therapy research. He maintains an ongoing collaboration with the Hokkaido University Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine. In 2023, Dr. Ünlü relocated the Laboratory of Medical and Biological Physics from Boğaziçi University, which he founded in 2012, to the Faculty of Engineering at Özyeğin University. His areas of expertise include medical and biomedical physics, medical imaging, image formation algorithms, biological physics, and computational cancer biology. As of October 2023, Dr. Ünlü was appointed as Acting Dean of Faculty of Aviation and Aeronautical Science.

Prof. Dr. Özlem Yenerer Çakmut started her undergraduate education at Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1988 and completed it in 1992. She completed her Master's Degree, which she started at Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Public Law, by successfully presenting her thesis titled "Search in Criminal Procedure Law and Immunity of Housing". Afterwards, she earned the right to do her doctorate in Marmara University Social Sciences Institute Public Law Department, and in this process, she completed her doctoral thesis named "Examination of Consent to Medical Intervention in terms of Criminal Law", during which she did research in Germany (Freiburg in Brs. and Cologne). In 1994, she started to work as a Research Assistant at Marmara University, Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law; she was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2003. She completed her associate professorship work on "Determination of Pedigree and the Crime of Changing the Child's Pedigree" and passed the Associate Professorship Colloquium, which she entered in 2009, unanimously, and received the title of Associate Professor. She became a Professor in 2014 with her Professorship titled "Disturbing the Peace and Tranquillity of People and Noise Crimes". Prof. Çakmut has published works and presentations in her field. She has been working at Özyeğin University Faculty of Law since 2012. As of February 2022, she took up the position of Dean.

Prof. Dr. Aslıhan Ünlü graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 1986 and completed her Master’s and PhD degrees from the same institution. She continued her academic career at ITU between 1988-2020 where she received “Full Professorship” in 2014. Dr. Ünlü completed her postdoc research project titled “Energy and Visual Performance Appraisal of Electrochromic Windows Integrated with Overhangs in Different Climates” at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the University of California between 2003-2004. Being a Fulbright Fellow, she worked and taught as a Visiting Professor at Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation at Bristol, Rhode Island between 2012-2013. Her main research areas focus on sustainable building technologies and construction, high performance façade & window systems and her research articles have been published nationally and internationally. She has supervised several master and PhD studies. Dr. Unlu worked as the ITU coordinator of EU Erasmus Strategic Partnership Project "Re-use of modernist buildings - RMB" which was completed on September 2019. In addition, she is an editorial board member of Facade Design and Engineering (JFDE), a member of European Facade Network (EFN), a member of Turkish Chamber of Architects, Association of Architecture Education (ArchEd), National Association of Environmental Control.

Prof. Dr. Gökhan Özertan earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University in 1994 and obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University in 2001. He was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University between 2001-2025. Throughout his career, he has held visiting positions at the University of Massachusetts Boston (2009–2010) and the Central Bank of Turkey (2016–2017). Prof. Dr. Özertan has led projects funded by EU PRIMA, TÜBİTAK, various Turkish ministries, the UNDP, and the UK Prosperity Fund. In 2019, he participated in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cochran Fellowship Program. Additionally, he served as the rapporteur for the Copyrights Section of Turkey’s Eleventh Development Plan. He served as the Chairman of the Working Group of the IV. Agricultural Council in 2025. His research focuses on modelling agricultural and environmental processes, the role of technology in agriculture, the impacts of climate change, commodity price dynamics, and the economic implications of intellectual property rights and regulations in the IT sector. He teaches microeconomics, statistics, econometrics, economics of innovation, agricultural economics, and environmental economics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He started his position as a Professor in the Department of Economics at Özyeğin University on July 1, 2025, and as of October 2025, he has been appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences.