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Academic Staff of Interdisciplinary Programs
 
Michelle Marie Adams
Professor
Ph.D., Neurobiology, New York University, 2001. Cognitive Neurobiology.  
Yasemin Afacan
Professor
Ph.D., Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University, 2008. Inclusive Design, Residential Environments for elderly people, sustainable design, virtual reality.  
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.  
Ergin Atalar
Professor
Ph.D., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 1991. Image guided medical interventions, magnetic resonance imaging, antenna design for MRI.  
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.  
Hüseyin Boyacı
Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Bilkent University, 1999. Visual Perception, Cognitive Neuroscience.  
Tolga Çukur
Professor
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2009. Biomedical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), signal processing, computational neuroscience.  
Turgay Dalkara
Professor
Ph.D., Pharmacology, Hacettepe University, 1981. Neurobiology of migraine, neuroinflammatory signaling, brain microcirculation, brain-derived extracellular vesicles.  
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.  
Grant Navid Doering
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., McMaster University, 2021. Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour.  
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.  
Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 2011. Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience.  
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.  
Emin Karagözoğlu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Economics, Maastricht University, 2010. Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics.  
Özlen Konu Karakayalı
Professor
Ph.D., Biology, Texas Tech University, 1999. Microarray data analysis, gene networks in nicotine's pharmacological effects, zebrafish genetics.  
Mustafa Ordu
Unam Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, 2018. Photonic crystal fibers, semiconductor-core fibers, silicon photonics.  
Zahide Pamir Karatok
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Neuroscience, Bilkent University, 2017. Underlying mechanisms of neuroplastic changes in the visual brain in typical and abnormal development occurring as a result of changes in sensory input (e.g., sensory deprivation), or brain injury.  
Ronny Rosner
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Philosophy, Bielefeld University, 2009.  
Emine Ülkü Sarıtaş
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2010. Biomedical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic particle imaging (MPI), signal and image processing, safety limits of magnetic fields in medical imaging systems.  
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.  
Timothea Toulopoulou
Professor
Ph.D., Neuropsychology, University of London, 2001. Abnormal Psychology, Biological Psychology, Neuropsychology, Schizophrenia, Behavioral genetics.  
Fulya Türker
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Biological Chemistry, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2023. Proteasome-dependent protein degradation, activity-based probes, neurodegenerative diseases.  
Burcu Ayşen Ürgen
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of California, 2015. Multisensory integration, visual perception, computational neuroscience.  
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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