Ruken Alac

PhD Candidate

ruken.alac@sydney.edu.au

Phone:

Madsen Building F09, Rm
School of Geosciences
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006
Australia

Research Project

Ruken Alac investigates the topographic and sedimentary evolution of the Lake Eyre Basin a large, dominant feature in the Australian landscape, including much of inland Queensland, large portions of South Australia and the Northern Territory, and a part of western New South Wales. Her project is focused on Badlands (BAsin anD LANdscape DynamicS), a landscape evolution modeling software and MCMC (Markov chain Monte Carlo) method. She is co-supervised by Dietmar Muller and Tristan  Seller.

Short Bibliography

Ruken Alac is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. She received her MEngSc in Surveying and Geospatial Engineering from University of New South Wales and BS in Geophysical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. She also holds Master of Science and Technology in Spatial Information from University of New South Wales. Her current research interests include modeling, surface processing, MCMC and data mining. She is currently working with EarthByte Group and Basin GENESIS Hub.