Bilkent University

Academic Staff of Faculty of Science

Engin Umut Akkaya Professor	Ph.D., Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus 1989. Molecular and Supramolecular Synthetic Chemistry and Exploration of Emerging Functions.
Fahri Alkan Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Delaware, 2016. Atomically precise nanoclusters, quantum effects in plasmon coupling, approximate-TDDFT methods, computational NMR.
İnci Apaydın Instructor	M.S., Operations Research, Middle East Technical University, 1989. Classical and Exploratory Statistics, Forecasting, Statistical Decision Making, Information Society.
Fatihcan Atay Professor	Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1994. Dynamical systems, delay differential equations, networks and graph theory, complex systems, applied mathematics.
Deniz Aybaş Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Boston University, 2021. Experimental atomic, molecular and optical physics.
Cihan Bahran Visiting Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 2019. Functorial representation theory with applications to topology.
Laurence John Barker Associate Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Oxford University, 1992. Finite groups, representation theory, local and clifford theory, G-algebras, G-posets.
Bilge Baytekin Associate Professor	Ph.D., Chemistry, Free University of Berlin, 2008. Mechanochemistry, organic materials chemistry, electrostatics.
Kadri İlker Berktav Visiting Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, 2021. Algebraic geometry, higher structures, and mathematical physics, working on higher categorical structures in geometry and physics; derived algebraic/symplectic geometry.
Ceyhun Bulutay Professor	Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1997. Computational semiconductor physics.
Şahin Büyükdağlı Associate Professor	Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, University Joseph Fourier, 2007. Statistical physics, biophysical modelling.
İlyas Chachoua Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, Universit e. Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, 2017. Signal transduction and molecular hematology, De duve institute and Ludwig institute for cancer research.
Onur Çizmecioğlu Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Cell Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), University of Heidelberg, 2009. Signaling pathways in cancer, PI3K pathway, regulation of cell and centrosome cycles.
Ömer Dağ Professor	Ph.D., Chemistry, Middle East Technical University, 1994. Synthesis, characterization and spectroscopy of solid-state materials.
Turgay Dalkara Professor	Ph.D., Pharmacology, Hacettepe University, 1981. Neurobiology of migraine, neuroinflammatory signaling, brain microcirculation, brain-derived extracellular vesicles.
Aleksander Degtyarev Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Steklov Mathematical Institute, 1988. Algebraic topology, algebraic geometry.
Bahar Değirmenci Uzun Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, 2018. Intestinal stem cells, colorectal cancer, obesity.
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.
Ahmet Züfer Eriş Senior Lecturer	Ph.D., Mathematical Physics, Middle East Technical University, 1976. Classical Field Theories, General Relativity, Integrable Systems.
Alexandre Goncharov Associate Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Rostov State University, 1986. Functional analysis. Topological vector spaces, spaces of infinitely differentiable functions.
Serkan İsmail Göktuna Assistant Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., Human Biology, Technical University of Munich, 2010. Cancer biology, tumor immunology, autoimmune diseases.
Ahmet Muhtar Güloğlu Associate Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Ohio State University, 2005. Analytic number theory, automorphic forms.
Oğuz Gülseren Professor	Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, Bilkent University, 1992. Theoretical Solid State Physics, nanoscience, metal nanowires, carbon nanotubes, exotic superconductors high pressure-high temperature properties of metals, phonons and vibrational spectra.
Metin Gürses Professor	Ph.D., in Physics, Middle East Technical University, 1975. Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics. More specifically General Relativity and Integrable Systems.
Yaghoub Heydarzade Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Physics, Azerbaijan Shahid Madani University, 2018.Theoretical cosmology, black hole physics.
Hakkı Turgay Kaptanoğlu Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 1991. Complex analysis and operator theory in spaces of holomorphic or harmonic functions of several variables, especially in Besov spaces.
Ferdi Karadaş Associate Professor	Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, Texas A ?amp; M University, 2009. Synthesis and characterization of magnetic and parous inorganic materials.
Azer Kerimov Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics and Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, 1988. Mathematical theory of statistical physics, probability, mathematical analysis.
Aydın Cem Keser Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2017. Disordered and stochastic many-body systems, electron transport and electrodynamic properties of quantum materials, quantum sensors and physics based platforms for machine learning.
Muhammet Yasir Kızmaz Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, 2018. Finite group theory.
Özlen Konu Karakayalı Associate Professor	Ph.D., Biology, Texas Tech University, 1999. Microarray data analysis, gene networks in nicotine's pharmacological effects, zebrafish genetics.
Dilek Köksal Instructor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Ankara University, 1984. Probability and Statistics.
Zeki Cemal Kuruoğlu Professor Emeritus	Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry/Chemical Physics, University of Florida, 1978. Chemical reaction dynamics, quantum theory of scattering, few-body problems, numerical methods for quantum mechanical calculations.
Konstantinos Maronikolakis Instructor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University College Dublin, 2024. Complex analysis, potential theory, functional analysis.
Cihan Okay Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 2014. Algebraic topology, quantum information theory.
Mehmet Özgür Oktel Professor	Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. Theoretical condensed matter physics, atomic physics.
Halil İbrahim Okur Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Chemistry, Penn State University, 2014. Biointerfaces, water, nano-emulsions, biomacromolecules, lipid droplet organelles, specific ion effects, nonlinear spectroscopy, second harmonic generation.
Özhan Öçal Instructor	Ph.D., Genetics and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2011. Pancreatic cancer, diabetes, G-protein coupled receptor signaling.
Pınar Önal Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2013. Developmental Genetics, Epigenetics, Transcriptional Regulation, Evo-Devo.
Ekmel Özbay Professor	Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1992. Nanotechnology, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, metamaterials, GaN MOCVD growth, GaN devices, photonic crystals, physics and applications of nanostructures, photonic devices, nanosensors.
Tayfun Özçelik Professor	M.D., Human Genetics, Istanbul University, 1986. Human molecular genetics, gene mapping, mutation analysis, identification of disease genes, X-chromosome inactivation.
Emrah Özensoy Professor	Ph.D., in Physical Chemistry, Texas A ?amp; M University , 2004. Catalytic properties of surfaces and nanostructures, model catalyst design at the atomic level, spectroscopic investigation of single crystals and ultra-thin metal-oxide films.
Türker Özsarı Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Virginia, 2010. Analysis of partial differential equations and control theory.
Tomos Parry Visiting Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Gottingen, 2019. Analytic number theory.
Emre Ozan Polat Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Physics, Bilkent University, 2015. Quantum materials for nanophotonics, sensors and imaging technologies, flexible electronics.
Naci Saldı Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Queen's University, 2015. Stochastic control theory, game theory, machine learning, information theory, probability theory and its applications.
Sema Salur Visiting Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Michigan State University, 2000. Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis, Mathematical Physics, Partial Differential Equations.
Ali Sinan Sertöz Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1984. Algebraic geometry.
Haldun Sevinçli Professor	Ph.D., Physics, Bilkent University, 2008. Computational condensed matter physics, quantum transport, low-dimensional systems.
Müfit Sezer Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Purdue University, 2003. Invariant theory, commutative algebra.
Şefik Süzer Professor	Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1976. Electron, ion and photon spectroscopic analyses of gases, solids and surfaces.
Bilal Tanatar Professor	Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, University of Delaware, 1987. Theory of quantum solids and liquids, low dimensional electron systems, computational physics.
Mehmet Okan Tekman Senior Lecturer	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 1992. Automorphic forms, special values of L-functions.
Onur Tokel Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Applied Physics, Cornell University, 2011.
Fulya Türker Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Biological Chemistry, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2023. Proteasome-dependent protein degradation, activity-based probes, neurodegenerative diseases.
Yunus Emre Türkmen Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 2012. Non-covalent interactions in organocatalysis, natural product total synthesis.
Burak Ülgüt Associate Professor	Ph.D., Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Cornell University, 2007. Electron Transfer through molecules and assemblies.
Bülent Ünal Associate Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Missouri, 2000. Differential geometry, Riemannian geometry, pseudo-Riemannian geometry and Lorentzian geometry, global analysis on manifolds, general relativity and quantum field theories.
Özgün Ünlü Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004. Algebraic topology, geometric group theory.
Cemal Yalabık Professor	Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, Brown University, 1976. Statistical mechanics: dynamics of phase transitions and critical phenomena, quantum mechanical simulation of electronic devices.
Ergün Yalçın Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998. Cohomology of groups, finite group actions on topological spaces, geometric structures associated to groups.
Volkan Yazar Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University, 2019. Transcriptomics/Epigenetics, Systems Biology, Statistical Learning, Neurodegeneration.
Hamza Yeşilyurt Associate Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2004. Analytic theory of partitions, elliptic functions, basic hypergeometric series, and q-series.
Gökhan Yıldırım Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Southern California, 2013. Probability theory, statistical physics, high-dimensional statistic.
Deniz Yılmaz Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020. Representation theory, finite groups, block theory, biset functors.
Işık Yuluğ Associate Professor	Ph.D., Molecular Genetics, University of London, 1996. Gene analysis in breast cancer, gene identification, gene expression in eukaryotic systems, epigenetics.
Natalia Zheltukhina Instructor	Ph.D., Mathematics, Bilkent University, 2002. Analytic properties of entire functions, zero distributions.

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