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He was born in Istanbul on May 30, 1943. He completed his secondary education at the English Boys’ High School and then at Robert College in 1963, and began his higher education at the Department of Prehistory in the Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University. In 1970, he began working as an “honorary assistant” at Istanbul University and spent his entire academic career there. Özdoğan was promoted to professor in 1994, assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Prehistory in 2000, and retired in 2010. Özdoğan is a full member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) (2002 - 2011), a member of the Academy of Sciences (2011), a foreign full member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States (2005), and a member of the American Institute of Archaeology (AIA) and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).