# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/feryal-ozel
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:01:34.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/feryal-ozel"
name: "Feryal Özel"
slug: "feryal-ozel"
description: "Feryal Özel is a Turkish American astrophysicist born in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2022, Özel is the department chair and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics in Atlanta. She was previously a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in the Astronomy Department and Steward Observatory."
tagline: "Turkish-American astronomer (born 1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LSST_Public_Talk_(rubin-3s8a6613).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1975-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump