Curriculum Vitae
NAME AND ADDRESS
Professor Reţat Apak , Ph D. Chem. Enggn.
Department of Chemistry,Faculty of Engineering,Istanbul University,Avcýlar,34320,Istanbul
Fax:90-212-4737180 (Attention :Apak) Phone:90-212-473 70 28 e-mail: rapak@istanbul.edu.tr
ADMINISTRATIVE CAREER
Former Dean of the Faculty of Enggn. (Istanbul Univ.: IU) (1996-1999)
Former Head of the Department of Chemistry (IU) (1995-96)
Head of the Analytical Chemistry Division (IU) (1990- ...)
Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences (IU) (2007-…)
ACADEMIC & TEACHING CAREER
Obtained Ph.D. (1982),became associate professor (1987) and full professor (1993) in Istanbul University in the branch of analytical chemistry ; taught analytical, coordination and environmental chemistry in Istanbul University (1987-...),and general chemistry in the Military Academy of Turkish Air Force (1998-2002).
EDITORIAL CAREER
Editor of “Chimica Acta Turcica”(an international journal indexed in Chem.Abstr.and Ulrich’s Science Direct.) (1995-2002).
Editorial Board Member of Turkish Journal of Chemistry (indexed in SCI-Expanded)
(1996-...)
Editorial Board Member of Talanta (indexed in SCI) (2004-...)
Reviewer of many international journal articles in journals covered by Science Citation Index (SCI),e.g.,J.Colloid Interface Sci.,Talanta,J.Hazardous Materials,Anal.Chim.Acta, Water Res., Environ.Sci.&Technol.,Sep.Sci.& Technol.,Environ.Technol.
COUNTRY REPRESENTATION
Turkey’s country representative in NATO/CCMS Pilot Study for Land and Groundwater
Remediation,(1990-1997).
Turkey’s Country representative in the International Food Conference (Thinking Beyond Tomorrow), Dublin, Ireland, 16-18 June, 2004.
Turkey’s National Representative (NR) in the Analytical Chemistry (Equilibrium Data VI.) Committee of IUPAC (1996-1997, 2000- 2001). Renominated to National Rep. (NR) in the Analytical Chemistry Division for the term: 2008-2009
PROJECT COORDINATION AND EVALUATION
United Nations (UN) expert in international environmental projects evaluation(UNEP-STAP Roster of Experts,listed under “International Waters”, numbering approx. 250 experts) until 2007. See web site www.unep.org/stapgef
Coordinator of four international research projects supported by IAEA,TWAS,and NATO/CCMS; (coordinator of a Turkish State Planning Organization research project).
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES AND CITATIONS
Author of ca. 250 articles and congress presentations (93 of which are major research
articles published in SCI-covered journals, 6 peer-reviewed encyclopedia chapters, 2 letters to the editor in SCI-covered journals, and 3 textbooks (in Turkish)), and received about 1050 citations (by the end of Nov. 2008) in SCI-covered journals .
For observing selected publications of Dr.Apak, see Apak’s web page in Istanbul University :
http://www.istanbul.edu.tr/eng/kimya/analitik/resat_apak_cv.htm
http://www.istanbul.edu.tr/enstituler/denizbilimleri/turkce/personel/apak/Publications.htm
Author of 3 textbooks (in Turkish) on Analytical and Coordination Chemistry
SCIENCE AWARD
Received “honorary membership” award of Turkish Chemical Society in May, 2004, for his contributions to the advancement of chemical science.
OTHER ACTIVITIES & MEMBERSHIPS
Organizing and Scientific Committee Member of 10 International Symposia
Invited speaker in many international congresses and symposia
Member of Turkish Chemical Society , Turkish Board of Chemical Engineers,Turkish National Committee on Solid Waste Control (KAKAD)
Administrative Board member of “Association of University Academic Staff”(UOUD) of Turkey (2000-2002); Auditing Board member of UOUD (2002-2004).
Consulting Fellow of World Innovation Foundation,U.K.(2001-...)
American Chemical Society (2006- …)
Member of ‘Energetic Substances Technology Panel’, National Ministry of Defence, Research and Development (R & D) Technology Department (2007-2008)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Basic concepts of environmental and analytical chemistry; development of analytical methods for the (molecular and atomic) spectrophotometric determination of trace pollutants (e.g., residual pesticides and polynitro-explosives in soil) and biologically important compounds such as antioxidant vitamins, flavonoids and other polyphenols ; devising analytical methods for the total antioxidant capacity assay of foodstuffs and human plasma,; individual determination of antioxidant vitamins, flavonoids, and plasma antioxidants; heavy metal removal by solvent extraction and ion exchange; sorption of heavy metals and radionuclides from water onto unconventional sorbents; solid waste removal, recycling, recovery & disposal; adsorption modeling of heavy metals onto hydrous oxide-type sorbents by semi-empirical approaches and nonelectrostatic surface complexation models; development of chelating ion exchangers for solid phase extraction, separation and preconcentration of trace metals and environmentally important compounds. Inventor of the CUPRAC (cupric reducing antioxidant capacity) assay, applicable to food extracts and human serum (contributed to world literature in 2004).