Tamer Yılmaz

Tamer Yılmaz is a Turkish engineer and academician born in Istanbul in 1970. Yılmaz, who was trained in the fields of shipbuilding and aviation, is known for his duties in university administration, especially as the rector of Hasan Kalyoncu University and Yıldız Technical University.

He received his undergraduate education at Yıldız Technical University's Naval Architecture Engineering Department and graduated from there in 1992. He went to Belgium for his master's degree and studied at the Von Kármán Institute, known for its work in fluid dynamics. He received his doctorate in aeronautical engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 1998.

Then he started working as a lecturer in the shipbuilding department at Yıldız Technical University, where he graduated.

Management tasks

Between 2008 and 2013, he took on many administrative responsibilities at Yıldız Technical University, either successively or simultaneously: vice rector, director of the Institute of Science and Technology, and coordination of scientific research projects. He served on the board of directors of the university's technopark and in the technology transfer office; He also managed the establishment of the Star Camp incubation center opened in Silicon Valley in the USA.

His work in the maritime sector also coincides with this period. He served as the president of the ship classification organization Türk Loydu between 2011 and 2013; He also chaired the Experts and Surveyors Professional Committee within the Chamber of Shipping.

In 2013, he became the rector of Hasan Kalyoncu University in Gaziantep and held this position until 2018. He was appointed rector of Yıldız Technical University in August 2020; He became the eighth rector of the institution with its current university identity, and the 23rd director when all Yıldız institutions dating back to its roots are counted. After his four-year term expired, Eyüp Debik was appointed as his replacement in September 2024.

Yilmaz's career follows a line combining engineering education with positions in university administration, technology transfer and maritime institutions.