CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. (Physics) December 1994
  The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
  Dissertation: Theoretical Analysis of Josephson Junction Systems and Superconducting Superlattices
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Kishin Moorjani
  
• M.A. (Physics) 1989
  The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
• B.S. Highest Honors (Computer Engineering) 1987
  B.S. Highest Honors (Physics) 1987
  Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Academic

Truman State University

• Associate Professor of Physics (2005 - present)
• Assistant Professor of Physics (2000 - 2005)
  Quantum Mechanics, Mathematical Methods, Engineering Thermodynamics, Computer Programming for Physicists, Statics, College Physics, Concepts in Physics, "Weird Science" Interdisciplinary Seminar.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric Science Division

• Participating Guest (2000 - present)
  Model development work on IMPACT, LLNL's global 3D atmospheric model.
• Summer Faculty (1998 and 1999)
  Modeling aerosol and cloud effects on radiation transfer.

Southern University, Department of Physics

• Research Associate (1998 - 2000)
  Improved an atmospheric model developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• Instructor (1998 - 2000)
  Classical Mechanics, Introductory Modern Physics, Earth Science.
• Research Associate (1996 - 1998)
  MD simulations of high-temperature superconducting cuprate structure.

Iowa State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

• Temporary Instructor (1994 - 1995)
  Introductory physics lab, Advanced Electromagnetism.

The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

• APL Fellow in Science and Engineering (1991 - 1994)
  Theoretical and computational research on the statistical mechanics and magnetic behavior of Josephson-coupled granular superconducting systems.

The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

• Research Assistant (1990 - 1991)
  YBCO/PrBCO superlattices; Hubbard model.
• Teaching Assistant (1987 - 1990)
  General Physics recitations and labs.

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division

• "Collaborator" (Summer 1989)
  Theoretical research on anyon superconductivity.

CERN, Geneva

• Summer Student (1986)
  Programming support in the design of the Large Electron-Positron Collider.

Service & Administration

Associate Editor, Reports of the National Center for Science Education

Truman State University

• Diversity Institute Fellow (2003 - 2004)
  Studied the representation of women in physics and in the Truman physics program.

Southern University

• Conference Secretary (1998 - 1999)
  For the Second International Conference on New Theories, Discoveries, and Applications of Superconductors and Related Materials, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 1-4, 1999.
• Conference Secretary (1997 - 1998)
  For the First International Conference on New Theories, Discoveries, and Applications of Superconductors and Related Materials, Baton Rouge, LA, February 19-24, 1998.

International Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics (located at Iowa State University)

• Research and Educational Resources Project Coordinator (1994 - 1996)
  Resource assistance for physicists based in Central American countries.

The Johns Hopkins University

• Co-organizer, 1991 Johns Hopkins University Graduate Representative Organization Symposium; "Science in the 1990's."

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2007).
• Science and Nonbelief (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006). Part of the Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion; Richard Olson, series editor. Paperback edition by Prometheus Books, 2007.
• Matt Young and Taner Edis, eds., Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004). Includes chapters "Grand Themes, Narrow Constituency" and "Chance and Necessity -- and Intelligent Design?"
• The Ghost In the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2002). Recipient of the Morris D. Forkosch award for "best humanist book of 2002" from the Council for Secular Humanism.

Physics

• T. Edis, K.E. Grant, and P. Cameron-Smith, "Stratospheric Relaxation in IMPACT's Radiation Code," LLNL Technical Report UCRL-TR-226128 (2006).
• T. Edis, K.E. Grant, and P.J. Cameron-Smith, "Update on the Radiation Code in IMPACT: Clouds, Heating Rates, and Comparisons," LLNL Technical Report UCRL-TR-215001 (2005).
• T. Edis, P.J. Cameron-Smith, K.E. Grant, D. Bergmann, and C.C. Chuang, "Testing IMPACT's Radiation Code," LLNL Technical Report UCRL-TR-205281 (2004).
• D.S. Guo, R.R. Freeman, L. Gao, X. Li, P. Fu, T. Edis and A. Troha, "Spin-other-orbit Effect of Photon Modes," Journal of Physics B, 34:15 2983 (2001).
• T. Edis, J.D. Fan, D. Bagayoko and J.T. Wang, "A Two-dimensional Structure Factor Calculation for the Cu-1 Plane in YBa₂Cu₃O₆," International Journal of Modern Physics B, 12:29-31 3091 (1999).
• J.D. Fan, T. Edis, G.L. Zhao and Y.M. Malozovsky, "Molecular-dynamics-simulation Study of the Two-dimensional Lattice Structure of the Cu-1 plane in YBa₂Cu₃O_6+x ," Physical Review B, 56:17 10747 (1997).
• T. Edis and K. Moorjani, "The Weak Link Magnetically Modulated Resistance Response in Granular Superconducting Systems," Physical Review B, 51:2 1124 (1995).
• "Unusual Constraints in the Quantum Statistical Mechanics of Josephson Junction Systems," Journal of Statistical Physics, 71 313 (1993).
• M. Rasolt, T. Edis and Z. Tesanovic, "Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition and Charge Redistribution in the Superconductivity of YBCO/PBCO Superlattices," Physical Review Letters, 66 2927 (1991).

Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Humanities

• "Modern Science and Conservative Islam: An Uneasy Relationship," Science and Education 18:6-7 885-903 (2009).
• "Religion: Accident or Design?," in Joseph Bulbulia et al, eds., The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (Santa Margarita: Collins Foundation Press, 2008).
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "Biology and 'Created Nature': Gender and the Body in Popular Islamic Literature from Modern Turkey and the West," Arab Studies Journal 12:2/13:1 140 (2005).
• A.S. Bix and T. Edis, "Museum Review: The Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul," Technology and Culture, 45:3 590 (2004).
• "How Gödel's Theorem Supports the Possibility of Machine Intelligence," Minds and Machines, 8 251 (1998).

Critiques of Creationism and Intelligent Design

• "Muslim Resistance to Darwinian Evolution," in J. Seckbach and R. Gordon, eds., Divine Action and Natural Selection: Science, Faith and Evolution (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2009).
• "Harun Yahya's Legal Troubles," Reports of the National Center for Science Education 28:3 4 (2008).
• "Islamic Creationism: A Short History," History of Science Society Newsletter 37:1 14 (2008).
• "Intelligent Design: A Blind Alley," IslamOnline.net, September 2007.
• "The Rise of Islamic Creationism," International Humanist News 24, August 2007.
• "ABD’deki Yaratılışçı Akımlar ve Türkiye ile Bağlantıları," Bilim ve Gelecek 39 14 (2007).
• "Why 'Intelligent Design' is More Interesting than Old-fashioned Creationism," Georgia Journal of Science 63:3 190 (2005).
• "The Return of the Design Argument," Philosophy Now 50 42 (2005). [Review of Debating Design edited by Dembski and Ruse, and The Hidden Face of God by Gerald Schroeder.]
• "A World Designed by God: Science and Creationism in Contemporary Islam," in Paul Kurtz, ed. Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? (Amherst: Prometheus, 2003).
• "Creationism to Universal Darwinism: Evolution and Religion Today," and "Harun Yahya and Islamic Creationism," in Amanda Chesworth et al., eds. Darwin Day Collection One (Albuquerque: Tangled Bank, 2003).
• "With Darwin in Mind: 'Intelligent Design' meets Artificial Intelligence," The Skeptical Inquirer, 25:2 35 (2001).
• "Cloning Creationism in Turkey," Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 19:6 30 (1999).
• "Taking Creationism Seriously," Skeptic, 6:2 56 (1998).
• "Relativist Apologetics: The Future of Creationism," Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 17:1 17 (1997).
• "Islamic Creationism In Turkey," Creation/Evolution, 34 1 (1994).`

Other Skeptical Topics

• "Universe, Origin of the, and Unbelief," entry in Tom Flynn, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (Amherst: Prometheus, 2007).
• "The Best and Brightest Fanatics," op-ed distributed internationally by Project Syndicate, August 2007.
• "A False Quest for a True Islam," Free Inquiry, 27:5 48 (2007).
• "Democracy vs Secularism in the Muslim World," in Barry F. Seidman and Neil J. Murphy, eds., Toward A New Political Humanism (Amherst: Prometheus, 2004).
• Review of Defending Science--Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism by Susan Haack, Reports of the National Center for Science Education 24:3-4 54 (2004).
• "Exorcizing All The Ghosts," The Skeptical Inquirer, 28:2 35 (2004).
• "An Accidental Critic," in Ibn Warraq, ed., Leaving Islam (Amherst: Prometheus, 2003).
• "Flipping a Quantum Coin," Free Inquiry, 23:2 60 (2003).
• "Can Secular Philosophy Give Us Objective Morality?," The Secular Web (online), March 2003. [Review of "Atheism, Morality, and Meaning" by M. Martin.]
• "An Accidental World," Free Inquiry, 22:4 57 (2002).
• "The Rationality of an Illusion," The Humanist, 60:4 28 (2000).
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "Tales of Hysteria," The Skeptical Inquirer, 21:5 52 (1997). [Review of "Hystories" by E. Showalter.]
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "Bashing the Science-bashers," The Skeptical Inquirer, 19:2 46 (1995). [Review of "Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science" by P.R. Gross and N. Levitt.]
• "The Big Bang Controversy," The Skeptic (UK), 7:5 (1993).

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• "Rejecting Materialism: Muslim Responses to Conceptual Frameworks of Modern Science," invited presentation at the McGill Symposium on Islam and Evolution, McGill University, Montr\'eal, Canada, March 31, 2009.
• "Religion: Accident or Design?" invited talk at The International Conference on the Evolution of Religion, Hawaii, January 7, 2007.
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "Islamic Creationism in Turkey: Historical and Intellectual Perspectives," annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Vancouver, Canada, November 4, 2006.
• "Chance and Necessity...and 'Intelligent Design'?" invited talk at the Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting, April 15, 2005.
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "'Fitra' (Created Nature): Premodern Concepts of Gender Biology in Current Popular Islam,'' International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology conference in Vienna, Austria, July 20, 2003.
• "Intelligent Design: Bad Science, Bad Philosophy, or Both," invited talk at the Council for Secular Humanism conference on 'Secularism, Society, and Justice,' April 12, 2003.
• "Exorcizing All The Ghosts," The James Randi Educational Foundation conference, February 2, 2003.
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "The Incomplete Female and the Passive Egg: Premodern Concepts of Gendered Bodies in Current Popular Islam," the 75th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, April 25-28, 2002.
• "A World Designed by God: Science and Creationism in Contemporary Islam," invited talk at the Center for Inquiry International Conference on 'Science and Religion,' Nov. 11, 2001.

RECENT PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

• "Science and Religion in Islam," presentations in 2007, 2008, and 2009, including Ryerson University, University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University, CFI-Los Angeles, Madison Public Library, University of Michigan. Also keynote address at Truman's 18th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy and Religion Conference, November 10, 2007.
• "Where does Intelligent Design stand today?", Columbia Public Library, MO, co-sponsored by the Show-Me Science Alliance, October 4, 2008.
• "Science and Nonbelief," Center for Inquiry-Michigan, January 9, 2008.
• "What Cost Rationality?", Center for Inquiry Community and Student Leadership Conference, June 15, 2007.
• "The Creation/Evolution Debate in the Muslim World," University of Kansas, April 3, 2007; University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 24, 2008.
• "An Accidental World," at the Jefferson Center Summer Institute, Ashland, OR, August 5, 2006.
• "Intelligent Design: Creationism Evolves Again," presentations from 2002-2004, including at Iowa State University, Nova Southeastern University, and the Bay Area Skeptics. Also presented as the main event at Sacramento's 7th annual Darwin Day celebration, 2004.
• "Chance and Necessity...and 'Intelligent Design'?" at Truman State University, November 22, 2002.
• Radio interview on Chicago WGN's "Extension 720," concerning The Ghost in the Universe, July 18, 2002.
• "The Ghost in the Universe," presentations in Kansas City, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Sacramento, Cleveland, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area, 2002-2003.
• "Believing in Magic: Public Science Literacy in the New Age," The Eupraxophy Group (Kansas City), April 28, 2002.
• "Diversity within Science and its Community," Truman Diversity Day, March 26, 2002.
• "Why do a JINS Course?," Truman Faculty Development lunch, March 20, 2002.
• "Creationism to Universal Darwinism," Truman Darwin Day, February 12, 2002.
• "Where Science and Religion Disagree," Truman Philosophy/Religion Club, October 15, 2001.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• Truman State University College of Arts and Sciences summer research grant, 2008.
• Truman State University Faculty Research/Scholarship Grant, 2001.
• Truman State University "Funding For Results" grant to develop a Junior Indisciplinary Seminar Course, Summer 2001.

OTHER

• "Scientific and Technical Consultant" to the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI, formerly known as CSICOP).
• Honorary Fellow of The Jefferson Center, Ashland, OR.