Alev Topuzoğlu
	Office: FENS 0000 Phone: +90 216 483 9507 Fax: +90 216 9550 e-mail: alev@sabanciuniv.edu Sabancı University - FENS Orhanli - Tuzla, 34956 Istanbul Turkey

She received BSc degree in mathematics from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, and completed her PhD degree at the University of London in 1982.

She worked at the Mathematics Department, METU from 1980 until she joined Sabanci University in 1998. Between 1992-1998 she also worked at the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK), where her responsibilities among others included the administration of science fellowships at graduate and postgraduate levels, scientific exchanges, and organisation of the science olympiads. During this period she also served as the National Administrator of several international science fellowships programs, and the European Science Exchange Program.

She carried out research at the Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany for varying periods during 1986-1996. In 1991 she received Mustafa Parlar Foundation Research and Encouragement Award.

She is a member of the London Mathematical Society, Turkish Mathematical Society (Vice-President during 1998-2002), and the American Mathematical Society.

Her research interests are metric number theory, pseudo random number generation and applications of finite fields.