Haluk Sucuoğlu is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He is also teaching at the earthquake engineering graduate program of the Pavia University (Rose School) in Italy. Currently, he is serving as the director of Structural and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory at METU.
Seismic assessment procedures developed by Dr. Sucuoğlu have been implemented to 150,000 buildings in Istanbul during 2002-2008 within the scope of Istanbul Earthquake Master plan. He was the technical coordinator of the school retrofitting program of the Ministry of Education during 2005-2007. He is serving as the Coordination Committee Member of the Turkish Seismic Code since 2004.
Dr. Sucuoğlu is the national delegate of Turkey at IAEE, and president of the Earthquake Engineering Association of Turkey. He is the editorial board member of Earthquake Spectra, Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Earthquakes and Structures Journals. He is the recipient of the 2012 Science Award of Parlar Science and Education Foundation. He is the author of several papers published in international peer reviewed journals, and also the textbook “Basic Earthquake Engineering” recently published by Springer