About Tansu
It takes quite a bit effort to keep this pages updated, but I believe it is worth the effort!
I am a research scientist and engineer. I have been happily married to my wife Ozlem, who is also Turkish, since the beginning of this millennium. She has received her MS degree from cell and structural biology department at UIUC. Thus, being an academic family and putting a higher value on knowledge than money, we lived a modest but happy life in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA for six years. I have realized how addictive such small towns could be only after moving to Berlin, Germany in 2006. However, Berlin is a very international, green, and fun city.
My first son Alper was born on August 3rd 2006, an event which changed everything. My second son Altay was born on July 6th 2010. Since then, they have become simply the happiest and most important aspects of my life. Being a father also puts many things into perspective. It is funny how all the cliches about maturity and family are true and how poor the words are in conveying such deep meanings.
I am a curious person and with time I have realized that learning (sciences) and technology are my only true hobbies. I keep trying other things (e.g. painting) but they never go beyond a point. I have recently started working to change this with my new hobby playing piano! I enjoy many things and I can talk about my favorite activities, bands, books, authors, etc. But no need to waste time with such yada yada unless we do it face to face.
To conclude, I live a quite and modest life filled with science at work and happiness at home. Adding to this the occasional travels to various parts of the world, which break the monotonicity, I must say that I am a very very lucky person!