Education:

• B.S. in Civil Engineering, June 1973

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• M.S. in Structural Engineering, April 1975

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, May 1980

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.

Experience:

• August 2006-present: Professor, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• July 2015-Februay 2019: Deputy Director, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• August 2006-July 2018: Head, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• January 2002 – August 2006: Research Structural Engineer and Project Chief, USGS, Earthquake Hazards Team, Pasadena, California.

• October 2000 – January 2002: Technical Advisor, employed by the U.S. State Department for the Saudi Geological Survey, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• March 1998 – September 2000: Research Professor, Division of Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado (while employed by the USGS).

• May 1995 – September 2000: Research Structural Engineer, Group Leader and Project Chief, USGS, Golden, Colorado.

• August 1993 - December 1993: Professorial Lecturer, Department of Civil, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (while employed by the USGS).

• January 1991 - May 1995: Research Structural Engineer, USGS Headquarters, Reston, Virginia.

• January 1984 - January 1991: Research Structural Engineer, USGS, Menlo Park, California.

• October 1988 - January 1991: Research Fellow, Stanford/USGS Institute for Research in Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (while employed by the USGS).

• July 1980 - January 1984: Project Engineer, Engineering Decision Analysis Company (EDAC), Palo Alto, California.

• June 1977 - July 1980: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

Professional Activities

• Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2009-present.
• Member of the Editorial Board, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2011-present.
• Member of the Editorial Board, EERI Journal Earthquake Spectra, 2003-2008.
• Member, ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Structural Division Technical Committee on Structural Identification of Constructed Facilities, 1994-2006.
• Member, ASCE Structural Division Technical Committee on Seismic Effects, 1989-2006.
• Member, ICSSC (Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction), 1992-2006.
• Member, UJNR (U.S.-Japan National Research) Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, 1991-2006.
• Member, 1993-2006. National Institute of Building Sciences, Project Oversight Committee.
• Seismic Safety Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey, 1992-2000.
• Scientific Advisor, NATO Project on Testing and Rehabilitation of Old Railway Bridges in Turkey, 1992-1997.
• Member, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division Technical Committee on Experimental Analysis and Instrumentation, 1991-1997.
• Member, ASCE Aerospace Division Subcommittee on Structural Dynamics and Control, 1990-1992.
• Associate Editor, EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute) Newsletter, 1984-1991.
• Member, U.S. Army Biaxial Shock Test Machine Technical Review Group, 1990.
• Member, EERI Committee on International Membership, 1986.
• Member, San Francisco Bay Area, San Bernardino County, Los Angeles, and Orange County Seismic Structural Instrumentation Committees, 1984-1985.

Research Interests:

• Research, development, teaching, and consulting on:
  • Response of structures to wind and earthquake loads.
  • Assessment of seismic safety and mitigation of seismic risk.
  • Seismic instrumentation, data acquisition, and data analysis.
  • Non-destructive field-testing for safety evaluation.
  • System identification and damage detection.
  • Wave propagation in soils and structures.
  • Modeling and digital simulation of natural hazards.
  • Reliability analysis of structural systems.
  • Random vibrations and stochastic processes.
  • Active and passive control of structural systems.

• Managing research projects, writing technical reports and papers, reviewing papers for journals, and evaluating research proposals for funding agencies.
• Planning and managing permanent and temporary instrumentation networks for structures.
• Participation in technical committees, workshops, meetings, and seminars.

Publications in Numbers

• Total number of papers in refereed journals: 58
• Total number of papers in conference proceedings: 110+
• Total number of scientific reports: 16
• Total number of citations: 2,313 as of Oct. 2018 (h-index: 25)

Publications in Refereed Journals

1. Foutch, D.A. E. Şafak (1981). Torsional vibration of wind excited symmetric structures, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol.7, No.2, March 1981, pp.191-201.

1. Foutch, D.A. and E. Şafak (1981). Torsional vibration of along-wind excited structures, Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE, Vol. 107, No. EM2, April 1981, pp.323-337.

1. Bongiovanni, G., M. Çelebi, and E. Şafak (1987). Seismic rocking response of a triangular building founded on sand, Earthquake Spectra, EERI, Vol.3, No.4, Nov. 1987, pp.793-810.

1. Şafak, E. and D.A. Foutch (1987). Coupled vibrations of rectangular buildings subjected to normally-incident random wind loads, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Elsevier Science Ltd., 26 (1987) pp.129-148.

1. Şafak, E. (1988). Analytical approach to calculation of response spectra from seismological models of ground motion, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Wiley Inter-Science, Vol.16, No.1, January 1988, pp.121-134.

1. Şafak, E., C. Mueller, and J. Boatwright (1988). A simple model for strong ground motions and response spectra, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Wiley Inter-Science, Vol.16, No.2, February 1988, pp.203-215.

1. Şafak, E. and D.M. Boore (1988). On low-frequency errors of uniformly modulated, filtered, white-noise models for ground motion, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Wiley Inter-Science, Vol.16, No.3, April 1988, pp.381-388.

1. Şafak, E. and M.F. Bendimerad (1988). Peak response of 2-DOF uncoupled oscillator under two-directional base motion, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Wiley Inter-Science, Vol.16, No.7, October 1988, pp.1061-1072.

1. Şafak, E. (1989). Optimal-adaptive filters for modeling spectral shape, site amplification, and source scaling, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol.8, No.2, April 1989, pp.75-95.

1. Çelebi, M., G. Bongiovanni, E. Şafak, and G. Brady (1989). Seismic response of a large-span roof diaphragm, Earthquake Spectra, EERI, Vol.5, No.2, May 1989, pp.337-350.

1. Şafak, E. (1989). Adaptive modeling, identification, and control of dynamic structural systems: Part I- Theory, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.115, No.11, November 1989, pp.2386-2405.

1. Şafak, E. (1989). Adaptive modeling, identification, and control of dynamic structural systems: Part II- Applications, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.115, No.11, November 1989, pp.2406-2426.

1. Şafak, E. and M. Çelebi (1990). Method to estimate center of rigidity of a building using vibration recordings, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.116, No.1, 1990, pp.85-97.

1. Çelebi, M., E. Şafak, and N. Youssef (1991). Torsional response of a unique building, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.117, No.5, May 1991, pp.1549-1566.

1. Şafak, E. and M. Çelebi (1991). Recorded seismic response of Transamerica Building: Part II – System identification, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.117, No.8, August 1991, pp.2404-2424.

1. Çelebi, M., and E. Şafak (1991). Recorded seismic response of Transamerica Building: Part I - Data and preliminary analysis, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.117, No.8, August 1991, pp.2388-2403.

1. Şafak, E. (1991). Identification of linear structures using discrete-time filters, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.117, No.10, October 1991, pp.3046-3085.

1. Şafak, E. and M. Çelebi (1991). Analyses of recorded responses of two high-rise buildings during the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, Special Issue on the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquake and its effects, October 1991, pp.2087-2110.

1. Şafak, E. and M. Çelebi (1992). Recorded seismic response of Pacific Park Plaza: Part II – System identification, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.118, No.6, June 1992, pp.1566-1589.

1. Çelebi, M., and E. Şafak (1992). Seismic response of Pacific Park Plaza: Part I - Data and preliminary analysis, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.118, No.6, June 1992, pp.1547-1565.

1. Şafak, E. (1993). Response of a 42-story steel-frame building to the Ms=7.1 Loma Prieta Earthquake, Engineering Structures, Vol.15, No.6, pp.403-421.

1. Şafak, E. and A. Frankel (1994). Structural response to 3-D simulated earthquake motions in San Bernardino Valley, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.120, No.10, October 1994, pp.2820-2839.

1. Şafak, E. (1995). Detection and identification of soil-structure interaction in buildings from vibration recordings, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.121, No.5, May 1995, pp.899-906.

1. Şafak, E. (1995). Discrete-time analysis of seismic site amplification, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.121, No.7, July 1995, pp.801-809.

1. Şafak, E. (1997). Models and methods to characterize site amplification from a pair of records, Earthquake Spectra, EERI, Vol.13, No.1, pp.97-129.

1. Şafak, E (1997) New directions in seismic monitoring of multi-story buildings, Structural Health Monitoring, Current Status and Perspectives, 418-430.

1. Şafak, E. (1998). Propagation of seismic waves in tall buildings, The International Journal of the Structural Design of Tall Buildings, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Vol. 7, pp.295-306.

1. Şafak, E. (1998). New approach to analyze soil-building systems, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 17, No. 7-8, pp.509-517.

1. Şafak, E. (1999). Wave propagation formulation of seismic response of multi-story buildings, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 125, No. 4, pp.426-437.

1. Şafak, E. (2000). Characterization of seismic hazards and structural response by energy flux, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 20, No. 1-4, pp.39-43.

1. Şafak, E. and M. Erdik – Coordinators (2000). Recorded main shock and aftershock motions, Earthquake Spectra – Special Issue on 1999 Kocaeli. Turkey Earthquake, December 2000, Vol. 16, Issue S1, pp. 97-112.

1. Şafak, E., M. Erdik, K. Beyen, D. Carver, E. Cranswick, M. Celebi, E. Durukal, W. Ellsworth, T. Holzer, M. Meremonte, C. Mueller, O. Ozel, S. Toprak (2000). Recorded main shock and aftershock motions, Earthquake Spectra,Volume16, Issue S1, Pages 97-112.

1. Şafak, E. (2001). Local site effects and dynamic soil behavior, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 21, pp.453-458.

1. Şafak, E. (2001). Analysis of earthquake records from structures: An overview, in Strong Motion Instrumentation for Civil Engineering Structures (Eds. M. Erdik, et al.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp.91-107.

1. Özel, O., E. Cranswick, M. Meremonte, M. Erdik, and E. Şafak (2002). Site Effects in Avcilar, West of Istanbul, Turkey, from Strong- and Weak-Motion Data, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, February 2002 Vol. 92, pp.499-508.

1. Zhang, R.R., S. Ma, E. Şafak, and S. Harzell (2003). Hilbert-Huang transform analysis of dynamic and earthquake motion recordings, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 8, August 2003, pp. 861-875.

1. Erdik, M., T. Rashidov, E. Şafak, and A. Turdukulov (2005). Assessment of seismic risk in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 7, pp.473-486

1. Erdik,M., T. Rashidov, E. Şafak, and A. Turdukulov (2005). Assessment of seismic risk in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 7-10 (Special Issue), pp 473-486

1. Kohler, M.D., P.M. Davis, and E. Şafak (2005). Earthquake and Ambient Vibration Monitoring of the Steel Frame UCLA Factor Building, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 21, No. 3, August 2005, pp.715-736.

1. Şafak, E. (2006). Time-domain representation of frequency-dependent foundation impedance functions, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 26, No.1, pp.65-70.

1. Snieder, R. and E. Şafak (2006). Extracting the building response using interferometric imaging; theory and application to the Millikan Library in Pasadena, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 96, pp.586-598.

1. Şafak, E. (2007). Importance of surface waves for tall buildings, Journal of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Vol. 1, No 1, pp.33-42.

1. Şafak, E. (2009). System identification for soil-structure interaction, in Encyclopedia of Structural Health Monitoring (Ed. by Boller, C., Chang, F., and Fujino, Y.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, pp.2319-2326.

1. Şafak, E., E Çaktı, Y Kaya (2010). Recent developments on structural health monitoring and data analyses, Earthquake Engineering in Europe, Springer Netherlands. pp. 331-355.

1. Picozzi, M., C Milkereit, C Zulfikar, K Fleming, R Ditommaso, M Erdik, J Zschau, J Fischer, E. Şafak, O Özel, and N Apaydin (2010). Wireless technologies for the monitoring of strategic civil infrastructures: An ambient vibration test on the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Suspension Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 8, No.3, pp.671-691.

1. Şafak, E. (2010). Strong-motion and structural monitoring networks in Istanbul and their use for risk assessment, Earthquake Data in Engineering Seismology, Volume 14 of the series Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, pp 261-270, November 2010.

1. Şafak, E. (2011). Yüksek Yapılardaki Rüzgar Yüklerinin Hesabı, TMMOB İnşaat Mühendisleri Odası, 2011, Vol. 4.

1. S Soyoz, E Taciroglu, K Orakcal, R Nigbor, D Skolnik, E. Şafak (2012). Ambient and forced vibration testing of a reinforced concrete building before and after its seismic retrofitting, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.139, Issue10 Pages 1741-1752

1. Tsereteli, N., G Tanircan, E Şafak, O Varazanashvil, T Chelidze, A Gvencadze, N Goguadze (2012). Seismic hazard assessment for Southern Caucasus—Eastern Turkey energy corridors: The example of Georgia, Correlation between human factors and the prevention of disasters, IOS Press BV,Volume 94, Pages 96-111.

1. Apaydın, N., Y. Kaya, E Şafak, H Alçık (2012). Vibration characteristics of a suspension bridge under traffic and no traffic conditions, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 2012, Vol. 41, Issue 12, pp.1717-1723.

1. Kaya, Y. , E. Şafak (2013). Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection, Topics in Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 4, Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, May 2013, pp 11-19.

1. Kaya Y., E. Şafak (2015). Real-time analysis and interpretation of continuous data from Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Systems, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, v. 13, Issue 3, p. 917-934

1. Kaya, Y., S. Kocakaplan, and E. Şafak (2015). System Identification and Model Calibration of Multi-Story Buildings Through Estimation of Vibration Time Histories at Non-Instrumented Floors, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, v.13, Issue 11, pp.3301-3323.

1. Hancilar, U., I. El-Hussain, K. Sesetyan, A. Deif, E. Cakti, G.Al-Rawas, E. Şafak, and K. Al-Jabri (2018). Earthquake risk assessment for the building inventory of Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Natural Hazards, Vol. 93, No.3, pp.419-1434.

1. E. Çaktı and E. Şafak (2018). Structural Health Monitoring: Lessons learned, in Seismic Isolation, Structural Health Monitoring, and Performance Based Seismic Design in Earthquake Engineering, Springer Int. Pub. AG, Switzerland, pp.145-164.

1. Caglar, N.M., E. Şafak (2019). Application of travelling wave method for dynamic analysis of plane frame structures, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering March 2019, Volume 17, Issue 3, pp 1361–1377.

1. Caglar, N.M., E. Şafak (2019). Application of spectral element method in dynamic analysis of plane frame structures, Earthquake Spectra, August 2019, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 1213-1233

1. Çağlar N.M., E. Şafak (2019). Energy flux approach for dynamic analysis of structures, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, August 2019.

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 1978-present.
• Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI),1984-present.
• Member, Seismological Society of America (SSA), 1985-present.
• Member, American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), 1979-1991.
• Member, Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC),1984-1991.