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Academic Staff of Materials Science and Nanotechnology
 
Won mi Ahn
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, 2010. Nano-optics, plasmonics, nanophotonics, nanofabrication, light-matter interactions in the strong coupling regime, polaritonic chemistry, hot carrier-driven photocatalysis and photoelectrochemistry.  
Amirhoushang Bahrami
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Max Plank Institute Berlin, Germany, 2013. Active/living matter and biophysics, biomembranes and vesicles, cellular mechanics and mechanobiology, cellular and biological processes, cellular uptake of nanoparticles and drug delivery, synthetic biology, computational nanofluidics.  
Abdullah Demir
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 2010. Optoelectronics, nanophotonic devices, semiconductor lasers, high power laser diodes, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELS), quantum cascade lasers, nanolasers.  
Hilmi Volkan Demir
Professor
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004. Nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonies, optoelectronics light-emitting diodes (LEDs), semiconductor nanocrystals, RF sensing bioimplants and medical devices.  
Engin Durgun
Unam Associate Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Bilkent University, 2007. Computational materials design, solar fuels, cement chemistry, surface phenomena, multiferroics, hydrogen storage, nanowires/nanoclusters, magnetism/spintronics, nanotribology.  
Aykut Erbaş
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Technical University of Munich, 2011. Statistical mechanical and thermodynamic description of soft matter; nonequilibrium polymer physics, polyelectrolytes, hydrogels. Biophysics, protein-DNA interactions, chromosome organization, facilitated dissociation, reaction kinetics.  
Fatih İnci
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Molecular Biology-Genetics and Biotechnology, Istanbul Technical University, 2013. Precision Health, Point-of-care Diagnostics, Biosensors, Microfluidics, Nanoplasmonics, Micro/Nano-scale Technologies, Bio-inspired Sensors, Mobile Health (mHealth), Infectious Diseases, Global Health, Disease Early Diagnosis and Screening.  
Seymur Jahangirov
Unam Associate Professor
Ph.D., Material Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, 2012. Computational physics, silicene, 2D materials, friction, nanowires and atomic chains.  
Mustafa Ordu
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, 2018. Photonic crystal fibers, semiconductor-core fibers, silicon photonics.  
İbrahim Sarpkaya
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2016. Carbon Nanotube and 2D Material Based Nanophotonics, Experimental Quantum Optics  
Cüneyt Şahin
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Physics, University of Iowa, 2015. Theoretical and computational study of spin dynamics, spin lifetimes, and spin Hall conductivity in complex oxides and topological insulators, first principles materials discovery of novel quantum materials for quantum computations, modeling of transitional metals and rare earth dopants in semiconductors, anomalous Nernst conductivity in magnetic crystals, g-tensors in magnetic field induced Weyl semimetals, current induced magnetism and optical activity in helical metals.  
Gürkan Yeşilöz
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2017. BioMEMS, micro/nanofluidics devices, organ-on-chips and physiological systems, tissue engineering, drug delivery and drug screening, pathogen detection, droplet microfluidics, acoustofluidics, microwave integrated sensors/heaters, nanoparticle synthesis and multiphase fluid interactions.  
Hasan Yılmaz
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Applied Physics, University of Twente, 2015. Experimental and computational optics and photonics, light scattering, optical imaging and spectroscopy, computational imaging, wavefront shaping, spatiotemporal control of light, imaging through opaque media, complex photonic media, mesoscopic physics of light, statistical optics, laser physics, random matrix theory.  

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