Current Members            

 

Cihan Arlı, Ph. D. student (M. Sc. and B. Sc. Degrees in Materials Science and Engineering), on-going. Cihan is working on effects of crystal anisotropy on the elastocaloric effect in ferroic oxides.

 

Alumni

 

Mohammad Hasan Joudivand Sarand, Ph.D. 2023 in Manufacturing Engineering,

worked on physics based crystal plasticity finite element method to analyze deformation behavior of alloys (co-advised with Dr.Eralp Şimşek of KTMM Sabancı Univ., now at University of Oxford).

 

Sirous Khabbazkenar, Ph.D. 2021 in Materials Science and Engineering.

Sirous is working as a post-doc in our group (co-advised with Dr. Yılmaz Şimşek of SUNUM) as a characterization specialist and researcher. Now at SUNY as post-doc.

 

Neslihan Şişman, M.Sc. 2022 (B.Sc. degree in Materials Science and Nanoengineering),

worked on growth and characterization of MoO3 thin films for chemiresistive sensing.

 

Dr. Barış Okatan, researcher (Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering), worked on thermodynamics of electrocaloric response of relaxor ferroic solid solutions.

Currently assistant professor at İzmir Institute of Technology.

 

Omid Mohammadmoradi, defended his Ph.D. thesis in January of 2021, co-advised with Prof. Gözde İnce, M. Sc. (2017).

Thesis subject: iCVD growth and characterization of high capacitance, compositionally graded PVDF films for flexible electronics.

Currently works at TETACAM.

 

Canhan Şen, defended his Ph.D. thesis in August of 2018.

Thesis subject: Spin dependent screening at ferroelectric/ferromagnet interfaces, local density of states and finite size effects.

Co-founder of the spin-off TETACAM.

 

Omid Mohammadmoradi, M. Sc. (2017).

Thesis subject: High quality growth of Ba,Sr,TiO3 films via sol-gel methods for tunable applications.

 

Mohammadreza Khodabakhsh, M. Sc. (2014).

Thesis title: Effect of A-site doping on the structure and phase transition temperatures of Bi(1-x)A(x)FeO3 (Supported by Dean’s Office of Sabancı University and partially by TÜBA).

Now Ph.D. student at Koç University, Materials Science Program.

 

Hamidreza Khassaf, M. Sc. (2012) at Sabancı University.

Thesis title: Synthesis and characterization of BiFeO3 thin films (Supported by TÜBİTAK and partially by TÜBA).

Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut, Materials Science and Engineering, graduated in 2017.

Currently carrying out post-doc work at Brown University, RI, USA.

 

Hale Nur Çöloğlu, M. Sc. (2011) at Sabancı University.

Thesis title: Phase transitions into multidomain states in ferroelectric thin films with depletion charges and partial electrode screening (supported by TÜBİTAK/BİDEP scholarship).

Now project engineer at National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM), Bilkent University.

 

Özgün Kocabıyık, B. Sc. (2011), M.Sc. (2013) EPFL, Switzerland, Ph.D. (2013- ) EPFL.

Senior Project (coadvised with Assoc. Prof. Ali Koşar): Synthesis and morphological characterization of magnetofluids.