Faculty Members

Deniz Aybaş Tümtürk

Office: SA-224
Phone: +90 312 290 1972
Email: deniz.aybas[at]bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Electrical Engineering, Boston University, 2021

Research: Experimental atomic, molecular and optical physics; quantum sensors for precision magnetometry; nuclear magnetic resonance.

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Ceyhun Bulutay

Department Chair

Office: SA-220
Phone: +90 312 290 2511
Email: bulutay[at]fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1997

Research: Theoretical quantum optics and sensing, optomechanics, non-Hermitian physics

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Şahin Büyükdağlı

Office: SA-217
Phone: +90 312 290 2109
Email: buyukdagli[at]fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Statistical Mechanics, University Joseph Fourier, 2007

Research: Statistical physics of charged and polar liquids, ion channels, electrostatics of polymer translocation, statistical physics of DNA melting, critical phenomena, biophysical modelling.

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Hilmi Volkan Demir

Office: EE-507
Phone: +90 312 290 1021
Email: volkan[at]fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004

Research: Semiconductor optoelectronics and nanophotonics, Quantum-confined colloidal structures including quantum dots and wells, Solid-state lighting and LEDs, Nanocrystal-based color conversion, Display-backlighting color enrichment, Energy transfer, Optical gain in semiconductor nanocrystals.

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Ahmet Züfer Eriş

Office: SA-222
Phone: +90 312 290 1388
Email: ahmet.eris[at]bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Physics, Middle East Technical University 1976

Research: Classified Field Theories, Theory of Gravitation, Harmonic Maps, Completely Integrable Systems.

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Oğuz Gülseren

Office: SA-225
Phone: +90 312 290 1937
Email: gulseren[at]fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Condensed Matter Physics, Bilkent University, 1992

Research: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience, Graphene, Solar cells, Plasmonics, Metal nanowires, carbon nanotubes, electronic structure of solids, material properties from first principles.

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Mehmet Özgür Oktel

Office: SA-227
Phone: +90 312 290 1207 or 2512
Email: oktel[at]fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Condensed Matter Physics, MIT, 2001

Research: Bose-Einstein condensation, Spinor Quantum Gases, Optical properties of Atomic Gases, One dimensional quantum fluids.

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Ekmel Özbay

Office: NANOTAM
Phone: +90 312 290 1966
Email: ozbay[at]bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1992

Research: Metamaterials and left-handed materials, photonic band gap materials, GaN based nanophotonic devices, high speed optoelectronic devices, high performance semiconductor laser diode, GaN MOCVD epitaxial growth, physics and applications of nanostructures, micro electro-mechanical devices, ultrafast phenomena, quantum optics.

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Ceren Sibel Sayın

Office: SA-218
Phone: +90 312 290 2673
Email: csibelsayin[at]bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Physics, Middle East Technical University 2014

Research: Theoretical and computational solid state physics, ab initio methods, low dimensional materials, electronic structure calculations.

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Hâldun Sevinçli

Office: SA-229
Phone: +90 312 290 1216
Email: sevincli[at]fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Physics, Bilkent University, 2008

Research: Theory and simulation of quantum transport of charge, spin and heat with focus on nano-electronics, spintronics, magnetotransport, thermoelectrics, phononics, quantum thermal transport.

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Bilal Tanatar

Office: SA-226
Phone: +90 312 290 1591
Email: tanatar[at]fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Condensed Matter Physics, University of Delaware, 1987

Research: Theory of quantum solids and liquids, low dimensional electron systems, computational physics.

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Onur Tokel

Office: ARL-102
Phone: +90 312 290 8078
Email: otokel[at]bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Applied Physics, Cornell University, 2011

Research: Fundamental light-matter interactions, from state-selective laser photolysis dynamics to fundamental photonics; and applying the resulting understanding towards novel micro/nano-fabrication technologies and optical devices.

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Cemal Yalabık

Office: SA-228
Phone: +90 312 290 1316 or 1207
Email: yalabik[at]fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Condensed Matter Physics, Brown University, 1976

Research: Statistical mechanics: dynamics of phase transitions and critical phenomena, quantum mechanical simulation of electronic devices.

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Ali Ulvi Yılmazer

Office: SA-223
Phone:
Email: ali.u.yilmazer[at]bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Physics Engineering, Ankara University, 1986

Research: High Energy Physics.

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Zeynep Ergönenç Yavaş

Office: SA-209
Phone:
Email: zeynep.yavas[at]bilkent.edu.tr

Ph.D.: Computational Materials Physics, University of Vienna, 2018

Research: Quantum materials modeling using first-principles computational methods.

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