Independent experts nominated by country party
Cengiz Yıldırım
Title
Prof. Dr.
First name
Cengiz
Last name
Yıldırım
Gender
Male
Nominating Country
Discipline of Expertise
Geology
Other Disciplines
Natural hazards, Quaternary Geology, Active Tectonics, Remote Sensing
UN languages spoken
English
Job function
Professor/Head of the Department
Email
cyildirim@itu.edu.tr
Telephone number
0090 5533052537
Work experience
06.2019 – Present
Institution: Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Position: Prof. Dr.
10.2014 – 05.2019
Institution: Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Position: Assoc. Prof. Dr.
08.2012 – 09.2014
Institution: Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Position: Assist. Prof. Dr.
09.2011 – 07.2012
Institution: University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Germany
Position: Post-Doc
04.2009 – 08.2011
Institution: German Research Center for Geosciences, GFZ Potsdam
Position: Post-Doc
08.2008 – 03.2009
Institution: University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth Sciences, Germany
Position: Post-Doc
06.2002 – 07.2008
Institution: Mineral Research and Exploration of Turkey, Department of Geological Research
Position: Geomorphologist
10.1999 – 05.2002
Institution: Istanbul University, Department of Geography
Position: Research Assistant
Institution: Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Position: Prof. Dr.
10.2014 – 05.2019
Institution: Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Position: Assoc. Prof. Dr.
08.2012 – 09.2014
Institution: Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Position: Assist. Prof. Dr.
09.2011 – 07.2012
Institution: University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Germany
Position: Post-Doc
04.2009 – 08.2011
Institution: German Research Center for Geosciences, GFZ Potsdam
Position: Post-Doc
08.2008 – 03.2009
Institution: University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth Sciences, Germany
Position: Post-Doc
06.2002 – 07.2008
Institution: Mineral Research and Exploration of Turkey, Department of Geological Research
Position: Geomorphologist
10.1999 – 05.2002
Institution: Istanbul University, Department of Geography
Position: Research Assistant
Publication titles
1. **Aykut, T., Uysal, I.T., Yıldırım, C., Ustaömer, T., Leonard, N. 2026.** Long-term faulting history of the Central Taurides based on U-Pb dating of syn-tectonic calcites, *Earth and Planetary Science Letters*, Volume 675, 2026, 119763, ISSN 0012-821X. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119763].
2. **Yıldırım C., Ozcan, O., Akay, S.S., Sarikaya, M.A., Karatas, M., Gedik, Y., Kozaci, O., Altunel, E., Clahan, K. and Koehler, R., 2025.** High-Resolution Co-Seismic Surface Displacement Distribution of the 6 February 2023, Elbistan (Kahramanmaras) Earthquake (Mw 7.6), Turkiye. *JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH*, 130(11). [https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JB031452].
3. **Sarıkaya MA, Çiner A, Yıldırım C., Parnikoza I, Seong YB, Yu BY.** Cosmogenic exposure age record of emerged nearshore erratic boulders on the western Antarctic Peninsula. *Antarctic Science*. Published online 2025:1-12. [https://doi:10.1017/S0954102025100394].
4. **Çiner, A., Yıldırım, C., Sarıkaya, M.A., Klanten, Y., Oliva, M., Seong, Y.B., Yu, B.Y. 2025.** Tracing the peak of Neoglacial cooling on the Western Antarctic Peninsula: The Little Ice Age moraines of Marguerite Bay, *Quaternary Science Reviews*, Volume 369, 2025, 109641, ISSN 0277-3791. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109641].
5. **Aykut, T., Yıldırım, C., Uysal, I.T. et al.** Coeval upper crustal extension and surface uplift in the Central Taurides (Türkiye) above the Cyprus Subduction Zone. *Nature Communications* 16, 3921 (2025). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55802-w]
6. **Altunel E., Kozacı, Ö., Yıldırım, C., Sbeinati M., Megrhraoui M. 2024.** The potential domino effect of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake on the centuries-long seismic quiescence of the Dead Sea Fault: Inferences from the North Anatolian Fault. *Scientific Reports* 14 (1), 15440.
7. **Robb ES Moss, et al.** Geotechnical and geological reconnaissance of the 6 February 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes. 2024. *Earthquake Spectra*, 2024.
8. **Yıldırım, C., Çiner A., Sarıkaya MA, Hidy, A. 2024.** Cosmogenic Surface Exposure (10Be) dating of raised beaches in Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula: Implications for relative sea level history. *Quaternary Science Reviews*, 344, 108995.
9. **Diercks, M.-L., Mildon, Z.K., Boulton, S.J., Hussain, E., Alçiçek, M., Yıldırım, C., & Aykut, T. (2023).** Constraining historical earthquake sequences with Coulomb stress models: An example from western Türkiye. *Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth*, 128, e2023JB026627. [https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026627]
10. **Racano, S., Schildgen, T., Ballato, P., Yıldırım, C., Wittmann, H. 2023.** Rock-uplift history of the Central Pontides from river-profile inversions and implications for the development of the North Anatolian Fault. *Earth and Planetary Science Letters*. Vol.616. 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118231
11. **Aykut, T., Yıldırım, C., Uysal T., 2023.** Active Deformation Pattern in the Western Flank of the Central Taurides, Southern Margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: Inferences from Geomorphic Markers and Kinematic Indicators. *Tectonics*. Vol.42. Issue 6. 10.1029/2022TC007550
12. **Altınay O., Sarıkaya M.A., Ciner A., Zebre, M., Stepisnik U., Yıldırım, C., Yetemen O., Wilcken K. 2022.** Cosmogenic 36Cl surface exposure dating of glacial landforms on Mt. Barla (SW Turkey). *Geomorphology*. Vol. 416. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108424
13. **Avcıoğlu A., Görüm T., Akbaş A., Moreno-de las Heras, M., Yıldırım, C., Yetemen O. 2022.** Regional Distribution and Characteristics of Major Badland Landscapes in Turkey. *Catena*. Vol. 218. 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106562
14. **Ciner, A., Sarıkaya M.A., Yıldırım, C., Girault, I., Todisco D., Martin F., Borrero, L., Derek, F. 2022.** Terrestrial cosmogenic Be-10 dating of the Ultima Esperanza ice lobe moraines (52 degrees S, Patagonia) indicates the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) extent was half of the local LGM. *Geomorphology*. Vol. 414. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108381
15. **Yıldırım, C., Aksoy, M.E. Özcan, O., İşiler M., Özbey, V., Çiner, T.A, Salvatore, P., Sarıkaya, M.A., Doğan, T., İlkmen E. 2022.** Coseismic (20 July 2017 Bodrum-Kos) and paleoseismic markers of coastal deformations in the Gulf of Gökova, Aegean Sea, SW Turkey. *Tectonophysics*, vol.822.
16. **Khadijeh H., Sarıkaya M.A., Gorum, T., Wilcken, M., Ciner, A., Zebra, M., Stepisnik U, Yıldırım, C.** The Namaras rock avalanche: Evidence of mid-to-late Holocene paraglacial activity in the Central Taurus Mountains, SW Turkey. *Geomorphology*, Vol.48. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108261
17. **Özpolat, E., Yıldırım, C., Görüm, T. et al.** Three-dimensional control of alluvial fans by rock uplift in an extensional regime: Aydın Range, Aegean extensional province. *Scientific Reports* 12, 15306 (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19795-0]
18. **Tanyas, H., Görüm, T., Fadel, I., Yıldırım, C., Lombardo, L. 2022.** An open dataset for landslides triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8. Kaikoura Earthquake, New Zeeland. *Landslides*, Vol.19, no.6, 1405-1420.
19. **Çiner, T.A., Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C., Girault, I., Todisco, D., Martin, F., Borrero, L Fabel, D. 2022.** Terrestrial cosmogenic 10Be dating of the Última Esperanza ice lobe moraines (52°S, Patagonia) indicates the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) extent was half of the local LGM. *Geomorphology*, Volume 414, 2022, 108381, ISSN 0169-555X. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108381]
20. **Köse, O, Sarıkaya, M., Çiner, A., Candaş, T.A., Yıldırım, C., Wilcken K.M., 2022.** Reconstruction of Last Glacial Maximum Glaciers and Paleoclimate in the central Taurus Rand, Mt. Karanfil of the Eastern Mediterranean. *Quaternary Science Reviews*, Volume 291, 2022, 107656, ISSN 0277-3791. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107656]
21. **Girault, I., Todisco D., Çiner T.A., Sarıkaya M.A., Yıldırım, C. 2022.** 10Be chronology of deglaciation and ice-dammed lake regression in the vicinity of the Mylodon Cave (Cerro-Benitez, Patagonia, Chile). *Quaternary Science Reviews*. No 278, 1-21.
22. **Köse, O, Sarıkaya, M., Çiner, A., Yıldırım, C. 2021.** Glacial geomorphology of the Aladağlar, central Taurus Mountains, Turkey. *Journal of Maps*, 17:2, 101-113. DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2021.18831374
23. **McClain, K., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A., Sarıkaya, M.A., Özcan, O., Görüm, T., Köse, O., Şahin, S., Kıyak N.G., Öztürk, T. 2021.** River, alluvial fan and landslide interactions in a tributary junction setting: Implications for tectonic controls on Quaternary fluvial landscape development (Central Anatolian Plateau northern margin, Turkey). *Geomorphology*, Volume 376, 2021, 107567, ISSN 0169-555X. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107567](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107567)
24. **Meghraoui, M., Yıldırım, C., Zabcı, C., Akyüz, S., Ergintav, S. 2021.** The 20th anniversary of the Eastern Marmara Earthquakes: active tectonics of continental strike-slip faults. *Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews*, 3(1), 1–1. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-021-00056-7]
25. **Erginal, A.E., Erenoğlu, R.C., Yıldırım, C., Selim, H.H., Kıyak, N.G., Erenoğlu O., Ulugerli, E., Karabıyıkoğlu, M. 2021.** Co-seismic beachrock deformation of 8th century AD Earthquake in Middle Strand of North Anatolian Fault, Lake Iznik, NW Turkey. *Tectonophysics*, Volume 799, 2021, 228690, ISSN 0040-1951. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228690]
26. **Özpolat, E., Yıldırım, C., & Görüm, T. (2020).** The Quaternary landforms of the Büyük Menderes Graben System: the southern Menderes Massif, western Anatolia, Turkey. *Journal of Maps*, 16(2), 405–419. [https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1764874]
27. **Yıldırım, C. (2020).** Geomorphology of Horseshoe Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctica. *Journal of Maps*. [https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1692700]
28. **Çiner, A., Yıldırım, C, Sarikaya, M., Seong, Y., & Yong Yu, B. (2019).** Cosmogenic 10Be exposure dating of glacial erratics on Horseshoe Island in western Antarctic Peninsula confirms rapid deglaciation in the Early Holocene. *Antarctic Science*, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S0954102019000439
29. **Yıldırım, C., Tüysüz, O., and Görüm, T. 2019.** The Sinop Peninsula: The Northernmost Part of Asia Minor. *Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey*. Springer. Eds. Kuzucuoglu, C., Çiner, A., Kazancı, N. page 365-277.
30. **Zebre, M., Sarıkaya, M.A., Stepisnik, U., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A., 2019.** First 36Cl cosmogenic moraine geochronology of the Dinaric mountain karst: Velez and Crvanj mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina. *Quaternary Science Reviews*. 208, 54-75.
31. **Berndt, C., Frenzel, P., Çiner, A., Ertunç, G., Yıldırım, C., 2019.** Holocene marginal marine ostracod successions from the Kızılırmak River delta; Implications for depositional environments and sea-level changes at the southern Black Sea coast. *Sedimentary Geology*. 382, 103-121.
32. **Berndt, C., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A., Ertunç, G., Sarıkaya, M.A., Özcan, O., Öztürk, T., Kıyak, N.G., Strecker, M., (2018).** Quaternary uplift of the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: new OSL dates of fluvial and delta-terrace deposits of the Kızılırmak River, Black Sea coast, Turkey. *Quaternary Science Reviews* 201, 446-469.
33. **Oliva, M., Žebre, M., Guglielmin, M., Hughes, P.D., Çiner, A., Vieira, G., Bodin, X., Andrés, N., Colucci, R.R., García-Hernández, C., Mora, C., Nofre, J., Palacios, D., Pérez-Alberti, A., Ribolini, A., Ruiz-Fernández, J., Sarıkaya, M.A., Serrano, E., Urdea, P., Valcárcel, M., Woodward, J.C., Yıldırım, C. (2018).** Permafrost conditions in the Mediterranean region since the Last Glaciation. *Earth-Science Reviews*, 185, pp. 397-436.
34. **Ballato, P., Parra, M., Schildgen, T.F., Dunkl, I., Yıldırım, C., Özsayın, E., Sobel, E.R., Echtler, H., Strecker, M.R. (2018).** Multiple Exhumation Phases in the Central Pontides (N Turkey): New Temporal Constraints on Major Geodynamic Changes Associated With the Closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. *Tectonics*, 37 (6), pp. 1831-1857.
35. **Yıldırım, C., Tüysüz O., (2017).** Estimation of the long-term slip, surface uplift and block rotation along the northern strand of the North Anatolian Fault Zone: Inferences from geomorphology of the Almacık Block. *Geomorphology*, Volume 297, 2017, Pages 55-68, ISSN 0169-555X. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.038](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.038).
36. **Çiner, A., Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C. 2017.** Misleading old age on a young landform? The dilemma of cosmogenic inheritance in surface exposure dating: moraines vs. rock glaciers. *Quaternary Geochronology*, 42, 76-88. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2017.07.003.
37. **Sarıkaya, M.A., Çiner, A., Yıldırım, C. 2017.** Cosmogenic 36 Cl glacial chronologies of the Late Quaternary glaciers on Mount Geyikdağ in the Eastern Mediterranean. *Quaternary Geochronology*, 39, 189-204. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2017.03.003.
38. **Melnick, D., Yıldırım, C., Hillemann, C., Garcin, Y., Çiner, A., Pérez-Gussinyé, M., Strecker, M.A. 2017.** Slip along the Sultanhanı Fault in Central Anatolia from deformed Pleistocene shorelines of palaeo-lake Konya and implications for seismic hazards in low-strain regions. *Geophysical Journal International*, 209, 3, 1431-1454. doi:10.1093/gji/ggx074.
39. **Yıldırım, C., Sarıkaya, M.A., Çiner, A. 2016.** Late Pleistocene intraplate extension of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey: Inferences from cosmogenic exposure dating of alluvial fan, landslide and moraine surfaces along the Ecemiş Fault Zone. *Tectonics*, 35. doi:10.1002/2015TC004038.
40. **Çiner A., Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C., 2015.** Piedmont glaciations in the Eastern Mediterranean; insights from cosmogenic 36Cl dating of hummocky moraines in southern Turkey. *Quaternary Science Reviews* 116, 44-56. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.03.017.
41. **Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A., 2015.** No surface breaking on Ecemiş Fault, central Turkey, since Late Pleistocene (~64.5 ka); new geomorphic and geochronologic data from cosmogenic dating of offset alluvial fans. *Tectonophysics*, 649, 33-46.
42. **Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A. 2015.** Late Quaternary alluvial fans of Emli Valley in the Ecemiş Fault Zone, south central Turkey: Insights from cosmogenic nuclides. *Geomorphology*, 228, 512-525. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.10.008]
43. **Çiner, A., Doğan, U., Yıldırım, C., Akçar, N., Ivy-Ochs, S., Alfimov, V., Kubik, P.W., Schlüchter, C. 2015.** Quaternary uplift rates of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey: Insights from cosmogenic isochron-burial nuclide dating of the Kızılırmak River terraces. *Quaternary Science Reviews*, 107, 81-97. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.007]
44. **Öğretmen, N., Cosentino, D., Gliozzi, E., Cipollari, P., Iadanza, A., Yıldırım, C., 2015.** Tsunami hazard in the Eastern Mediterrenean: geological evidence from the Anatolian coastal area (Silifke, southern Turkey). *Natural Hazards*. doi 10.1007/s11069-015-1916-2.
45. **Yıldırım, C. Relative tectonic activity assessment of the Tuz Gölü Fault Zone; Central Anatolia, Turkey.** *Tectonophysics*, 630, 183-192. 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.05.023]
46. **Schildgen, T.F., Yıldırım, C., Cosentino, D., Strecker, M.R.** Linking slab break-off, Hellenic trench retreat, and uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateaus. *Earth-Science Reviews*, 128, 147-168. 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.11.006]
47. **Yıldırım, C., Melnick, D., Ballato, P., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Erginal, A.E., Kiyak, N.G., Strecker, M.R.** Differential uplift along the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: Inferences from marine terraces. *Quaternary Science Reviews*, 81, 12-28. 2013. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.09.011].
48. **Yıldırım, C., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Çiner, A., Niederman, S., Merchel, S., Martschini, M., Steier, P., Strecker, M.R.** Tectonic implications of fluvial incision and pediment deformation at the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau based on multiple cosmogenic nuclides. *Tectonics*, 32, 1-14. 2013. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tect.200666]
49. **Schildgen, T.F., Cosentino, D., Caruso, A., Buchwaldt, R., Yıldırım, C., Rojay, B., Bowring, S.A., Echtler, H., Strecker, M.R.** Surface expression of Eastern Mediterranean slab dynamics: Neogene topographic and structural evolution of the SW margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey. *Tectonics*, 31, TC2005. 2012. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011TC003021].
50. **Schildgen, T.F., Cosentino, D., Bookhagen, B., Niedermann, S., Yıldırım, C., Echtler, H.P., Wittmann, H., Strecker, M.R.** Multi-phase uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes. *Earth and Planetary Science Letters*, 317-318, 85-95. 2012. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.003].
51. **Yıldırım C., T. F. Schildgen, H. Echtler, D. Melnick, and M. R. Strecker.** Late Neogene and active orogenic uplift in the Central Pontides associated with the North Anatolian Fault: Implications for the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey. *Tectonics*, 30 (5), TC5005. 2011. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010TC002756].
52. **Kondo, H., V. Özaksoy, and C. Yıldırım.** Slip history of the 1944 Bolu‐Gerede earthquake rupture along the North Anatolian fault system: Implications for recurrence behavior of multisegment earthquakes. *Journal of Geophysical Research*, 115, (3), B04316. 2010. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JB006413].
53. **Özaksoy, V., Emre, Ö., Yıldırım, C., Doğan, A., Özalp, S., Tokay.** Sedimentary record of late Holocene seismicity and uplift of Hersek restraining bend along the North Anatolian Fault in the Gulf of İzmit. *Tectonophysics*, 487 (1-4), 33-45. 2010. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2010.03.006].
54. **Dor, O., Yıldırım, C., Rockwell, T. K., Ben-Zion, Y., Emre, O., Sisk, M., Duman, T.Y.** Geologic and geomorphologic asymmetry across the rupture zones of the 1943 and 1944 earthquakes on the North Anatolian Fault: possible signals for preferred earthquake propagation direction. *Geophysical Journal International*, 173 (2), 483-504. 2008. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03709.x].
55. **Kondo, H., Awata, Y., Emre, Ö., Doğan, A., Özalp, S., Tokay, F., Yıldırım, C., Yoshioka, T. and Okumura, K.** Slip distribution, fault geometry and fault segmentation of the 1944 Bolu-Gerede Earthquake rupture, North Anatolian Fault, Turkey. *Bulletin of Seismological Society of America*, 95 (4), 1234-1249. 2005. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120040194]
2. **Yıldırım C., Ozcan, O., Akay, S.S., Sarikaya, M.A., Karatas, M., Gedik, Y., Kozaci, O., Altunel, E., Clahan, K. and Koehler, R., 2025.** High-Resolution Co-Seismic Surface Displacement Distribution of the 6 February 2023, Elbistan (Kahramanmaras) Earthquake (Mw 7.6), Turkiye. *JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH*, 130(11). [https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JB031452].
3. **Sarıkaya MA, Çiner A, Yıldırım C., Parnikoza I, Seong YB, Yu BY.** Cosmogenic exposure age record of emerged nearshore erratic boulders on the western Antarctic Peninsula. *Antarctic Science*. Published online 2025:1-12. [https://doi:10.1017/S0954102025100394].
4. **Çiner, A., Yıldırım, C., Sarıkaya, M.A., Klanten, Y., Oliva, M., Seong, Y.B., Yu, B.Y. 2025.** Tracing the peak of Neoglacial cooling on the Western Antarctic Peninsula: The Little Ice Age moraines of Marguerite Bay, *Quaternary Science Reviews*, Volume 369, 2025, 109641, ISSN 0277-3791. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109641].
5. **Aykut, T., Yıldırım, C., Uysal, I.T. et al.** Coeval upper crustal extension and surface uplift in the Central Taurides (Türkiye) above the Cyprus Subduction Zone. *Nature Communications* 16, 3921 (2025). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55802-w]
6. **Altunel E., Kozacı, Ö., Yıldırım, C., Sbeinati M., Megrhraoui M. 2024.** The potential domino effect of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake on the centuries-long seismic quiescence of the Dead Sea Fault: Inferences from the North Anatolian Fault. *Scientific Reports* 14 (1), 15440.
7. **Robb ES Moss, et al.** Geotechnical and geological reconnaissance of the 6 February 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes. 2024. *Earthquake Spectra*, 2024.
8. **Yıldırım, C., Çiner A., Sarıkaya MA, Hidy, A. 2024.** Cosmogenic Surface Exposure (10Be) dating of raised beaches in Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula: Implications for relative sea level history. *Quaternary Science Reviews*, 344, 108995.
9. **Diercks, M.-L., Mildon, Z.K., Boulton, S.J., Hussain, E., Alçiçek, M., Yıldırım, C., & Aykut, T. (2023).** Constraining historical earthquake sequences with Coulomb stress models: An example from western Türkiye. *Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth*, 128, e2023JB026627. [https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026627]
10. **Racano, S., Schildgen, T., Ballato, P., Yıldırım, C., Wittmann, H. 2023.** Rock-uplift history of the Central Pontides from river-profile inversions and implications for the development of the North Anatolian Fault. *Earth and Planetary Science Letters*. Vol.616. 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118231
11. **Aykut, T., Yıldırım, C., Uysal T., 2023.** Active Deformation Pattern in the Western Flank of the Central Taurides, Southern Margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: Inferences from Geomorphic Markers and Kinematic Indicators. *Tectonics*. Vol.42. Issue 6. 10.1029/2022TC007550
12. **Altınay O., Sarıkaya M.A., Ciner A., Zebre, M., Stepisnik U., Yıldırım, C., Yetemen O., Wilcken K. 2022.** Cosmogenic 36Cl surface exposure dating of glacial landforms on Mt. Barla (SW Turkey). *Geomorphology*. Vol. 416. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108424
13. **Avcıoğlu A., Görüm T., Akbaş A., Moreno-de las Heras, M., Yıldırım, C., Yetemen O. 2022.** Regional Distribution and Characteristics of Major Badland Landscapes in Turkey. *Catena*. Vol. 218. 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106562
14. **Ciner, A., Sarıkaya M.A., Yıldırım, C., Girault, I., Todisco D., Martin F., Borrero, L., Derek, F. 2022.** Terrestrial cosmogenic Be-10 dating of the Ultima Esperanza ice lobe moraines (52 degrees S, Patagonia) indicates the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) extent was half of the local LGM. *Geomorphology*. Vol. 414. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108381
15. **Yıldırım, C., Aksoy, M.E. Özcan, O., İşiler M., Özbey, V., Çiner, T.A, Salvatore, P., Sarıkaya, M.A., Doğan, T., İlkmen E. 2022.** Coseismic (20 July 2017 Bodrum-Kos) and paleoseismic markers of coastal deformations in the Gulf of Gökova, Aegean Sea, SW Turkey. *Tectonophysics*, vol.822.
16. **Khadijeh H., Sarıkaya M.A., Gorum, T., Wilcken, M., Ciner, A., Zebra, M., Stepisnik U, Yıldırım, C.** The Namaras rock avalanche: Evidence of mid-to-late Holocene paraglacial activity in the Central Taurus Mountains, SW Turkey. *Geomorphology*, Vol.48. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108261
17. **Özpolat, E., Yıldırım, C., Görüm, T. et al.** Three-dimensional control of alluvial fans by rock uplift in an extensional regime: Aydın Range, Aegean extensional province. *Scientific Reports* 12, 15306 (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19795-0]
18. **Tanyas, H., Görüm, T., Fadel, I., Yıldırım, C., Lombardo, L. 2022.** An open dataset for landslides triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8. Kaikoura Earthquake, New Zeeland. *Landslides*, Vol.19, no.6, 1405-1420.
19. **Çiner, T.A., Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C., Girault, I., Todisco, D., Martin, F., Borrero, L Fabel, D. 2022.** Terrestrial cosmogenic 10Be dating of the Última Esperanza ice lobe moraines (52°S, Patagonia) indicates the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) extent was half of the local LGM. *Geomorphology*, Volume 414, 2022, 108381, ISSN 0169-555X. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108381]
20. **Köse, O, Sarıkaya, M., Çiner, A., Candaş, T.A., Yıldırım, C., Wilcken K.M., 2022.** Reconstruction of Last Glacial Maximum Glaciers and Paleoclimate in the central Taurus Rand, Mt. Karanfil of the Eastern Mediterranean. *Quaternary Science Reviews*, Volume 291, 2022, 107656, ISSN 0277-3791. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107656]
21. **Girault, I., Todisco D., Çiner T.A., Sarıkaya M.A., Yıldırım, C. 2022.** 10Be chronology of deglaciation and ice-dammed lake regression in the vicinity of the Mylodon Cave (Cerro-Benitez, Patagonia, Chile). *Quaternary Science Reviews*. No 278, 1-21.
22. **Köse, O, Sarıkaya, M., Çiner, A., Yıldırım, C. 2021.** Glacial geomorphology of the Aladağlar, central Taurus Mountains, Turkey. *Journal of Maps*, 17:2, 101-113. DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2021.18831374
23. **McClain, K., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A., Sarıkaya, M.A., Özcan, O., Görüm, T., Köse, O., Şahin, S., Kıyak N.G., Öztürk, T. 2021.** River, alluvial fan and landslide interactions in a tributary junction setting: Implications for tectonic controls on Quaternary fluvial landscape development (Central Anatolian Plateau northern margin, Turkey). *Geomorphology*, Volume 376, 2021, 107567, ISSN 0169-555X. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107567](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107567)
24. **Meghraoui, M., Yıldırım, C., Zabcı, C., Akyüz, S., Ergintav, S. 2021.** The 20th anniversary of the Eastern Marmara Earthquakes: active tectonics of continental strike-slip faults. *Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews*, 3(1), 1–1. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-021-00056-7]
25. **Erginal, A.E., Erenoğlu, R.C., Yıldırım, C., Selim, H.H., Kıyak, N.G., Erenoğlu O., Ulugerli, E., Karabıyıkoğlu, M. 2021.** Co-seismic beachrock deformation of 8th century AD Earthquake in Middle Strand of North Anatolian Fault, Lake Iznik, NW Turkey. *Tectonophysics*, Volume 799, 2021, 228690, ISSN 0040-1951. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228690]
26. **Özpolat, E., Yıldırım, C., & Görüm, T. (2020).** The Quaternary landforms of the Büyük Menderes Graben System: the southern Menderes Massif, western Anatolia, Turkey. *Journal of Maps*, 16(2), 405–419. [https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1764874]
27. **Yıldırım, C. (2020).** Geomorphology of Horseshoe Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctica. *Journal of Maps*. [https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1692700]
28. **Çiner, A., Yıldırım, C, Sarikaya, M., Seong, Y., & Yong Yu, B. (2019).** Cosmogenic 10Be exposure dating of glacial erratics on Horseshoe Island in western Antarctic Peninsula confirms rapid deglaciation in the Early Holocene. *Antarctic Science*, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S0954102019000439
29. **Yıldırım, C., Tüysüz, O., and Görüm, T. 2019.** The Sinop Peninsula: The Northernmost Part of Asia Minor. *Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey*. Springer. Eds. Kuzucuoglu, C., Çiner, A., Kazancı, N. page 365-277.
30. **Zebre, M., Sarıkaya, M.A., Stepisnik, U., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A., 2019.** First 36Cl cosmogenic moraine geochronology of the Dinaric mountain karst: Velez and Crvanj mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina. *Quaternary Science Reviews*. 208, 54-75.
31. **Berndt, C., Frenzel, P., Çiner, A., Ertunç, G., Yıldırım, C., 2019.** Holocene marginal marine ostracod successions from the Kızılırmak River delta; Implications for depositional environments and sea-level changes at the southern Black Sea coast. *Sedimentary Geology*. 382, 103-121.
32. **Berndt, C., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A., Ertunç, G., Sarıkaya, M.A., Özcan, O., Öztürk, T., Kıyak, N.G., Strecker, M., (2018).** Quaternary uplift of the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: new OSL dates of fluvial and delta-terrace deposits of the Kızılırmak River, Black Sea coast, Turkey. *Quaternary Science Reviews* 201, 446-469.
33. **Oliva, M., Žebre, M., Guglielmin, M., Hughes, P.D., Çiner, A., Vieira, G., Bodin, X., Andrés, N., Colucci, R.R., García-Hernández, C., Mora, C., Nofre, J., Palacios, D., Pérez-Alberti, A., Ribolini, A., Ruiz-Fernández, J., Sarıkaya, M.A., Serrano, E., Urdea, P., Valcárcel, M., Woodward, J.C., Yıldırım, C. (2018).** Permafrost conditions in the Mediterranean region since the Last Glaciation. *Earth-Science Reviews*, 185, pp. 397-436.
34. **Ballato, P., Parra, M., Schildgen, T.F., Dunkl, I., Yıldırım, C., Özsayın, E., Sobel, E.R., Echtler, H., Strecker, M.R. (2018).** Multiple Exhumation Phases in the Central Pontides (N Turkey): New Temporal Constraints on Major Geodynamic Changes Associated With the Closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. *Tectonics*, 37 (6), pp. 1831-1857.
35. **Yıldırım, C., Tüysüz O., (2017).** Estimation of the long-term slip, surface uplift and block rotation along the northern strand of the North Anatolian Fault Zone: Inferences from geomorphology of the Almacık Block. *Geomorphology*, Volume 297, 2017, Pages 55-68, ISSN 0169-555X. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.038](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.038).
36. **Çiner, A., Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C. 2017.** Misleading old age on a young landform? The dilemma of cosmogenic inheritance in surface exposure dating: moraines vs. rock glaciers. *Quaternary Geochronology*, 42, 76-88. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2017.07.003.
37. **Sarıkaya, M.A., Çiner, A., Yıldırım, C. 2017.** Cosmogenic 36 Cl glacial chronologies of the Late Quaternary glaciers on Mount Geyikdağ in the Eastern Mediterranean. *Quaternary Geochronology*, 39, 189-204. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2017.03.003.
38. **Melnick, D., Yıldırım, C., Hillemann, C., Garcin, Y., Çiner, A., Pérez-Gussinyé, M., Strecker, M.A. 2017.** Slip along the Sultanhanı Fault in Central Anatolia from deformed Pleistocene shorelines of palaeo-lake Konya and implications for seismic hazards in low-strain regions. *Geophysical Journal International*, 209, 3, 1431-1454. doi:10.1093/gji/ggx074.
39. **Yıldırım, C., Sarıkaya, M.A., Çiner, A. 2016.** Late Pleistocene intraplate extension of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey: Inferences from cosmogenic exposure dating of alluvial fan, landslide and moraine surfaces along the Ecemiş Fault Zone. *Tectonics*, 35. doi:10.1002/2015TC004038.
40. **Çiner A., Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C., 2015.** Piedmont glaciations in the Eastern Mediterranean; insights from cosmogenic 36Cl dating of hummocky moraines in southern Turkey. *Quaternary Science Reviews* 116, 44-56. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.03.017.
41. **Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A., 2015.** No surface breaking on Ecemiş Fault, central Turkey, since Late Pleistocene (~64.5 ka); new geomorphic and geochronologic data from cosmogenic dating of offset alluvial fans. *Tectonophysics*, 649, 33-46.
42. **Sarıkaya, M.A., Yıldırım, C., Çiner, A. 2015.** Late Quaternary alluvial fans of Emli Valley in the Ecemiş Fault Zone, south central Turkey: Insights from cosmogenic nuclides. *Geomorphology*, 228, 512-525. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.10.008]
43. **Çiner, A., Doğan, U., Yıldırım, C., Akçar, N., Ivy-Ochs, S., Alfimov, V., Kubik, P.W., Schlüchter, C. 2015.** Quaternary uplift rates of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey: Insights from cosmogenic isochron-burial nuclide dating of the Kızılırmak River terraces. *Quaternary Science Reviews*, 107, 81-97. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.007]
44. **Öğretmen, N., Cosentino, D., Gliozzi, E., Cipollari, P., Iadanza, A., Yıldırım, C., 2015.** Tsunami hazard in the Eastern Mediterrenean: geological evidence from the Anatolian coastal area (Silifke, southern Turkey). *Natural Hazards*. doi 10.1007/s11069-015-1916-2.
45. **Yıldırım, C. Relative tectonic activity assessment of the Tuz Gölü Fault Zone; Central Anatolia, Turkey.** *Tectonophysics*, 630, 183-192. 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.05.023]
46. **Schildgen, T.F., Yıldırım, C., Cosentino, D., Strecker, M.R.** Linking slab break-off, Hellenic trench retreat, and uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateaus. *Earth-Science Reviews*, 128, 147-168. 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.11.006]
47. **Yıldırım, C., Melnick, D., Ballato, P., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Erginal, A.E., Kiyak, N.G., Strecker, M.R.** Differential uplift along the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: Inferences from marine terraces. *Quaternary Science Reviews*, 81, 12-28. 2013. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.09.011].
48. **Yıldırım, C., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Çiner, A., Niederman, S., Merchel, S., Martschini, M., Steier, P., Strecker, M.R.** Tectonic implications of fluvial incision and pediment deformation at the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau based on multiple cosmogenic nuclides. *Tectonics*, 32, 1-14. 2013. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tect.200666]
49. **Schildgen, T.F., Cosentino, D., Caruso, A., Buchwaldt, R., Yıldırım, C., Rojay, B., Bowring, S.A., Echtler, H., Strecker, M.R.** Surface expression of Eastern Mediterranean slab dynamics: Neogene topographic and structural evolution of the SW margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey. *Tectonics*, 31, TC2005. 2012. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011TC003021].
50. **Schildgen, T.F., Cosentino, D., Bookhagen, B., Niedermann, S., Yıldırım, C., Echtler, H.P., Wittmann, H., Strecker, M.R.** Multi-phase uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes. *Earth and Planetary Science Letters*, 317-318, 85-95. 2012. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.003].
51. **Yıldırım C., T. F. Schildgen, H. Echtler, D. Melnick, and M. R. Strecker.** Late Neogene and active orogenic uplift in the Central Pontides associated with the North Anatolian Fault: Implications for the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey. *Tectonics*, 30 (5), TC5005. 2011. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010TC002756].
52. **Kondo, H., V. Özaksoy, and C. Yıldırım.** Slip history of the 1944 Bolu‐Gerede earthquake rupture along the North Anatolian fault system: Implications for recurrence behavior of multisegment earthquakes. *Journal of Geophysical Research*, 115, (3), B04316. 2010. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JB006413].
53. **Özaksoy, V., Emre, Ö., Yıldırım, C., Doğan, A., Özalp, S., Tokay.** Sedimentary record of late Holocene seismicity and uplift of Hersek restraining bend along the North Anatolian Fault in the Gulf of İzmit. *Tectonophysics*, 487 (1-4), 33-45. 2010. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2010.03.006].
54. **Dor, O., Yıldırım, C., Rockwell, T. K., Ben-Zion, Y., Emre, O., Sisk, M., Duman, T.Y.** Geologic and geomorphologic asymmetry across the rupture zones of the 1943 and 1944 earthquakes on the North Anatolian Fault: possible signals for preferred earthquake propagation direction. *Geophysical Journal International*, 173 (2), 483-504. 2008. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03709.x].
55. **Kondo, H., Awata, Y., Emre, Ö., Doğan, A., Özalp, S., Tokay, F., Yıldırım, C., Yoshioka, T. and Okumura, K.** Slip distribution, fault geometry and fault segmentation of the 1944 Bolu-Gerede Earthquake rupture, North Anatolian Fault, Turkey. *Bulletin of Seismological Society of America*, 95 (4), 1234-1249. 2005. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120040194]
Awards
1. Outstanding Young Scientist Award, 2020, Turkish Academy of Sciences
2. Georg Foerster Experienced Researcher Fellowship, 2021. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2. Georg Foerster Experienced Researcher Fellowship, 2021. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
Organisation name
Istanbul Technical University Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
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Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University,
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Maslak, Istanbul
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34469,
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Türkiye