EDUCATION                               Prof. Dr. A. Cuneyt Tas         

• Iowa State University
  Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering,
  Ceramic Engineering, Ph.D.          August 1988 - May 1993              PhD thesis

• University of Missouri-Rolla
  Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering      August 1987 – January 1988

• Middle East Technical University
  Dept. of Metallurgical & Materials Eng., M.Sc.           February 1984 - February 1986         MSc thesis

• Middle East Technical University
  Dept. of Metallurgical & Materials Eng., B.Sc.           February 1979 – June 1983

• Izmir Ataturk Lisesi (Lycee = High school)             September 1975 – June 1978
• Izmir Ozel Turk Koleji (Secondary school)              September 1972 – June 1975
• Izmir Ulusal Egemenlik Ilkokulu (Primary school)           September 1967 – June 1972

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“One day, the universe was born from vacuum by accident, ejected energy became physical matters and stars were born by gravitational contraction. O/C/Si were born in red giant, mixed in supernova and other stars were born again. Planetesimals circled a star, integrated into planets and their surfaces were melted. However, some remained without change and trapped the past of our solar system. 4.6 billion years later, a falcon (Hayabusa2) swooped down from the sky, snatched off the fragments of the past and stuffed them into the capsule. It passed for one year and separated the spinning capsule breathlessly. The re-entry capsule shone in the starry night of Woomera, opened a parachute by accelerometer trigger, was caught in a tree and dropped in. After the long and winding journey, the samples arrived at last. Please show us, the human beings, the past of our solar system.”
by OSHIMA Takeshi (Project manager, NEC Space Systems Division)

Source: https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/