Present Group Members:

Sirous Khabbaz Abkenar (postdoctoral associate; M.Sc. from Univ. of Semnan, Iran; Ph.D. 2020)

Ali Ansari Hamedani (Ph.D. candidate, M.Sc. from Amirkabir Univ., Iran)

Arzu Coşgun (Ph.D. candidate, M.Sc. from Nanjing Univ. of Aero Astro)

Z. Semih Pehlivan (Ph.D. student, M.Sc. from Sabancı Univ., B.Sc. from Yıldız Technical Univ.)

Faiqa Dawood (’21)

Asad-ur-Rehman Shahzad (’21)

Yasemin Akyol (’21)

Ahmet Alper Ozkan (’22)

Defne Circi (’22)

Mehmet Can Dursun (’22)

M. Deniz Albayrak (’22)

Nur Banu Altin (’22)

D. Selin Memikoglu (’22)

Selen Ezgi Cankurturan (’23)

Metehan Kırşanlı (’23)

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Aya Yorgi, Buyukada Retreat, September 2018:

A subset of the phosphors team in March 2016:

A subset of the team at the Materials Research Society Fall 2007 Meeting in Boston, MA 2007 (photo courtesy of the MRS Headquarters staff):

Alumni:

1) Özge Akbulut (B.Sc. 2004, Ph.D. 2009 from MIT, faculty member at SU from 2012)

2) Ani Kamer (B.Sc. 2005, Ph.D. 2010 Stanford, then to SoloPower)

3) Deniz Özlem Şimşek (B.Sc. 2005, Ph.D. 2011 Cornell, then to UCSF)

4) Emine Begüm Gülsöy (B.Sc. 2006, Ph.D. 2010 Carnegie Mellon, faculty member at Northwestern Univ.)

5) Zeynep İlke Kalcıoğlu (B.Sc. 2006, Ph.D. 2012 MIT, then to W.L. Gore & Associates)

6) Nihan Kemik (B.Sc. 2006, Ph.D. 2011 UC Davis; then to KLA Tencor; now at ASML)

7) Hasan Kurt (B.Sc. 2006, Ph.D. 2016; faculty at Medipol Univ.)

8) Fatma Uyar Morency (B.Sc. 2006, Ph.D. 2011 Carnegie Mellon, then to Univ. Pittsburgh)

9) Osman J. El-Atwani (M.Sc. 2007)

10) İbrahim İnanç (B.Sc. Koç Univ., M.Sc. Boğazıçı Univ., Ph.D. 2011 SU; Zonguldak Univ. faculty member)

11) Vanya Anna Uluç (M.Sc. 2008, B.Sc. Istanbul Technical Univ.; then to Ph.D. program at TU Delft & Bosch Transmission Technology )

12) Serap Aksu (B.Sc. 2008, Ph.D. 2013 Boston University; postdoc EPFL, ETH-Zürich; faculty at Bilkent Univ.; now Koc Univ. faculty member)

13) Mahmut Akşıt (B.Sc. 2008, Ph.D. 2014 Cornell; R&D at 3M; Gebze Tech. Univ. faculty member)

14) Ömür Işıl Aydın (B.Sc. 2008, M.Sc. 2010 TU München, Ph.D. 2014 Univ. Grenoble; then to Global Foundries in Dresden)

15) Taner Aytun (B.Sc. 2008, M.Sc. 2010, Ph.D. 2016 Northwestern Univ.; then to Intel)

16) Cahit Benel (B.Sc. 2008, M.Sc. Univ. Ulm; PhD 2016 Univ. Darmstadt, then to European Institute for Energy Research in Karlsruhe)

17) Hande Cingil (B.Sc. 2008, M.Sc. 2009 Sheffield Univ., Ph.D. 2016 Wageningen Univ.; now Research Staff in SUNUM)

18) Ömer Faruk Mütaf (B.Sc. 2008, Ph.D. 2015 Univ. of Tokyo; then to an SME in Tokyo)

19) Ceren Ozaydın (B.Sc. 2008, M.Sc. 2011 Max-Planck-Institute Master’s Program; then to Heraeus)

20) Zuleyha Özlem Kocabaş (undergrad ’08, Ph.D. 2013 SU, then to EMPA)

21) Burçin Özdemir (B.Sc. 2008, PhD Univ. Ulm)

22) Deniz Gizem Öztürk (B.Sc. 2008, PhD 2018 at Univ. Zürich; then in the Silicon Valley as a data scientist)

23) Abdukadir Yurt (B.Sc. 2008, Ph.D. 2014 Boston Univ., then to IMEC in Leuven)

24) Cem Memed Akatay (B.Sc. 2009, Ph.D. 2013 Purdue; then to UOP Honeywell)

25) Salih Büyükkiliç (B.Sc. 2009, Ph.D. 2014 UC Davis, then to Intel)

26) Yasemin Fatoğlu (B.Sc. 2009, MBA Univ. of Tampa; then to Jabil)

27) Nusret Sena Guldal (B.Sc. 2009, M.Sc.at Fredrich Alexander Univ. Erlangen; then to Osram Opto Semiconductors in Regensberg)

28) Ece Gülşen (B.Sc. 2009, M.Sc. 2012 MIT, then to PA Consulting Group)

29) Alim Solmaz (B.Sc. 2009, M.Sc. 2011 Univ. Gröningen, Ph.D. 2017 Univ. Twente; now at NATO Communications and Information Agency)

30) Hüseyin Uçar (B.Sc. 2009, Ph.D. 2013 Carnegie Mellon; California State Polytechnic-Pomona faculty member)

31) Mahmut Tosun (undergrad ‘10, M.Sc. 2011 EPFL, Ph.D. 2016 UC Berkeley; now at Apple)

32) Necdet Başaran (undergrad '10)

33) M. Gözde Erdem (B.Sc. 2010, PhD 2016 Boston Univ.; now at Lam Research)

34) Selman Turan Erkal (B.Sc. 2010, M.Sc. 2012 Bilkent; now at Univ. College London)

35) Mete Karagozlu (B.Sc. 2010, M.Sc. 2012 EPFL; then to REnInvest SA)

36) Görkem Söyumer (undergrad ’10, M.Sc. 2012 from EPFL; co-founded Enerwhere)

37) Gözde Tutuncuoğlu (B.Sc. 2010, PhD 2017 EPFL; Microsoft Quantum Labs in Delft; now Wayne State Univ. faculty member)

38) Ayşe Deniz Alpay (undergrad ’11, M.Sc. 2013 Northwestern Univ.; then to Design for America)

39) Halil Selman Önsel (B.Sc. 2011, then to MA program in philosophy at Bilgi Univ)

40) Ece Alpaslan (MSc 2013, BSc 2011 from SU; PhD 2017 Northeastern Univ. then New England Biolabs)

41) Murat Gokhan Eskin (MSc 2011, PhD 2019 SU; founded MightyCell startup in TR)

42) Kayahan Sarıtaş (B.Sc. 2012, PhD 2017 MIT; then to Yale Univ.)

43) Mesut İnaç (undergrad ’13, M.Sc. 2015 SU; then to IHP in Brandenderg, DE)

44) Aysu Ceren Okur (B.Sc. 2013, M.Sc. 2015 Koç Univ.; now PhD program at EPFL)

45) Ridvan Kahraman (undergrad ’14, MSc 2017 Northwestern Univ.; now MArch program at Univ. of Stuttgart)

46) Bojan Ambrožič (visiting from University of Ljubljana, on Erasmus exchange)

47) Figen Ece Demirer (BSc 2015, MSc 2017 Univ. Twente; currently PhD at TU Eindhoven)

48) Güliz İnan Akmehmet (PhD 2015, MSc from Umea Univ., Sweden)

49) Hasan Emre Baysal (BSc 2017, MSc 2020 ETH-Zurich; currently PhD at KU Leuven)

50) Ayça Şenol (B.Sc. 2018, MSc 2020; PhD program at ETH-Zürich)

51) İpek Efe (B.Sc. 2018, MSc 2020; PhD program at ETH-Zürich)

52) İrem Efe (B.Sc. 2019, currently MSc program at Ohio State Univ.)

53) Ece Deniz (B.Sc. 2019, currently PhD program at UCDavis)

54) Enas Sakka Amini (undergrad ’20; now MEXXT scholar @ Univ. Kyushu)

55) Elif Nur Dayı (B.Sc. 2020, currently MSc program at EPFL)

56) Ece Günay (B.Sc. 2021; MSc program at SU)