She was the first Turkish graduate student to be awarded awarded with the Betsy Barbour prize, a prestigious scholarship awarded to Asian women doing their graduate study in the University of Michigan. After completing her dissertation, Soysal returned to Turkey and joined the staff of the department of mathematics in her alma mater, BoÄŸazici University. She was promoted to the position of associate professor in 1981 and became a full professor in 1991. While working in BoÄŸazici University, Ayse Soysal served as vice dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1984 to 1988, as the chair of the mathematics department from 1991 to 1992, and as the dean of the School from 1992 until the year 2004, when she became the rector of the university, a post she held until 2008. She was the the first woman in BoÄŸaziçi University to be appointed to that position. Soysal was a board member of the UNESCO Turkish National Commission between 1993 and 2000. She is an honorary member of the Turkish Mathematical Association, a member of the board of advisors of the Duke University Islamic Studies Center, and a member of the board of advisors of KAGIDER, the Association of Women Entrepreneurs. She has served on the TÜBÄ°TAK Science Board from 2008 to 2012 and on the board of the Turkish Higher Education Council from 2009 to 2013. She has taught courses in a wide range of topics, including group theory, ring theory and theory of fields, vector spaces and modules, topology, algebraic topology, group cohomology, differential equations, linear algebra, matrix theory, real analysis, complex analysis, probability theory, commutative algebra, geometric algebra, and group representations.

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