Prof. MURAT HATİPOĞLU

Biography

Geological Engineering in Geosciences (Physics-Chemistry, Geo-Chemistry, and Mining of Minerals & Gemstones)

Geologist, Mineralogist, Gemmologist (Gemstones), Archaeo-Gemmologist, Forensic-Gemmologist & jeweller

(Specialist on characterizations of gem materials and novel metals, which can be evaluated the spectroscopical and microscopical methods using confocal micro-Raman, all kinds of luminescence spectra, chemical analyses, XRD, AFM, FT-IR, SEM)

DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY

İzmir Vocational School (İMYO), Department of Handicrafts, Gemology-Lapidary, Jewelry and Design Program

Constituent Academic Member

Head of the Department & Gemological Testing Laboratory (DGL)

DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY

The Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Natural Building Stones and Gemstones Program

Constituent Academic Member

Head of Natural Building Stones and Gemstones Program

The person was born in 1963 in Izmir-Türkiye. After he graduated at geological engineering with the thesis on gemology, named, from the Department of Geosciences of the Engineering Faculty of Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir in 1984, he received his B.Sc. (1988), and Ph.D. (1996) from the Mineralogy-Petrography Program of the Department of Geological Engineering of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at the same University. Dr. Hatipoğlu has begun an academic carrier as a founder and staff academic member as a geologist, mineralogist, gemmologist, archaeo-gemmologist, forensic-gemmologist, & jeweler in “Gemmology, Jewelry, & Design Program” of Izmir Vocational School of Dokuz Eylul University. He is currently a professor as senior staff, and head of the Department (Handicrafts), and also director of its Gemmological Testing Laboratory (DGL). Thus, he has added more than 1.000 delegates to the jewelry sector. On the other hand, in 2005, Dr. Hatipoglu has organized a graduate program, named Natural Building Stones and Gemstones in the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences of Dokuz Eylul University. He is also currently a professor as senior staff and supervisor in the Graduate School. So far, while supervising by Dr. Hatipoglu only, 12 of the graduate and doctorate students have been the success the required mineralogical and gemmological courses, they have graduated with important gemmology theses from the same school. Thus, he has had thirty-eight years of academic executive experience on the physical-chemistry identifications and reports, geological formation, and mining of all kinds of gems-minerals. His current research studies are on the gem materials of Türkiye as well as worldwide, especially geological occurrences and gemmological and mineralogical material characteristics of diamond, corundum, beryl, topaz, gem diaspore, all kind of quartzes, kammererite, turkiyenite (purple jade), boron minerals, and petrified woods etc.  Accordingly, Dr. Hatipoğlu is a specialist and expertise in mineral characterization which can be evaluated the spectroscopical and microscopical methods using dispersive confocal Micro-Raman, all kinds of luminescence spectra, XRD, chemical analyses, atomic force microscopy, FT-IR, SEM. Dr. Hatipoğlu has the members of some important associations of geosciences in Türkiye (such as the Turkish Geological Society (ID:3188), the Chamber of Geological Engineers (ID:2989), the Department of Geosciences Institution (ID:102), and also the Association for the Protection of the Geological Heritage (ID:57). Dr. Hatipoğlu has founded the Museum of Anatolian Gemstones where is Türkiye's gemstone potential is displayed collectively in Dokuz Eylul University in 1985. In addition, after he had set up diamond and colored stone facet cutting units, it has been started a scientific guide to the public and professionals about lapidary other gemological interests. In addition, by establishing the Dokuz Eylul Gemology Test Laboratory (DGL) in 2001, it has been started to give official certificates to all kinds of rough and polished gemstones (diamonds, colored stones, and pearls). Academically, Murat Hatipoğlu serves as the first judge of almost all articles submitted on gemology in scientific journals indexed by SCI under Elsevier, Springer, MDPI, and Francis & Taylor. Dr. Hatipoğlu has published about 220 scientific papers of articles and proceedings (in English and Turkish), in addition, 8 of the gemological textbooks (in Turkish), and 2 of the research papers (in Turkish), and also 2 of the standards of Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) that have been current since1988 codded as TS-6173-Classification of Precious and Semi-Precious Gems and TS-6174-Classification of Precious and Semi-Precious Gems.