One of Prof. Dr. Fikret Şenses' first students, Prof. Dr. Doğan Tırtıroğlu is a Professor in the Department of Real Estate Management and has served as its Chair since September 2019. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance, with a specialization in Real Estate, from the University of Connecticut, USA. Throughout his academic career, he has held faculty appointments at Salisbury University (USA), Concordia University (Canada), the University of Cambridge (UK), the University of Adelaide (Australia), Kadir Has University, and Işık University (Türkiye).
He is both a peer-elected Academic Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute (USA) and an affiliated researcher with the Financial Mathematics Group of the Institute of Applied Mathematics at Middle East Technical University (Türkiye).
His research interests span real estate—particularly REITs and house price indices—banking, and corporate finance. He has published extensively in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, and City, Culture and Society, among others.
Prof. Tırtıroğlu has taught finance and real estate courses at the undergraduate, MBA, M.Sc., M.Phil., M.Comm., and Ph.D. levels and has supervised numerous graduate theses throughout his career. He has been a long-standing member of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and the Financial Management Association. He was the principal organizer of the 2011 Asia-Pacific Real Estate Research Symposium in Adelaide, Australia, and is one of the two founding co-organizers of the annual RealPAC/Toronto Metropolitan University Canadian Commercial Real Estate Symposium. He also serves on the editorial boards of the American Business Review, the Journal of Urban Design, and Economics & Politics, and is a member of the Research Committee of RealPAC.