PEOPLE

  

AWARDS to GROUP MEMBERS

• Hamayun Jan (Master’s student), Best Teaching Assistant – Proctor Award, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. 2026.

• Kıvanç Cingöz  / Berkant Karasoy (Undergrad students), Best Project Award, Bilkent University, Department of Physics, Ankara, Turkey. 2026.

• Mehmet Bütün (Master’s student), International Travel Grant, SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Francisco, USA. 2024.

• Alperen Saltik (Master’s student): Editor’s Pick at Optics Letters journal for scientific excellence, USA. 2024.

• Mehmet Bütün (Master’s student): First Prize, Graduate Student Research Competition, 25th National Optics, Electro-optics, and Photonics Workshop, Ankara, Turkey, 2024.

• Mehmet Bütün (Master’s student): International Travel Grant, Ankara, TUBITAK, Turkey, 2023.

• Sueda Saylan (Postdoctoral fellow): Marie Curie Actions Individual Fellowship, European Research Council, Brussels, 2022.

• Rana Asgari Sabet (Postdoctoral fellow): NanoArt Award, National Nanotechnology Research Center NANO DAY, Ankara, Turkey, 2022.

• Mertcan Han (Undergraduate student): Research Excellence Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2019.

•  Ahmet Turnalı (PhD student, co-supervised): Best Poster Award, National Photonics Workshop, Ankara, Turkey, 2016.

GROUP ALUMNI

• Zeynep  Naz Bayındır, MS Student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

• Ufuk Can Bozkurt, PhD Student, ICMMO, Université Paris-Saclay, France.

• Beliz Doğukaya, PhD Student, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA.

• Mehmet Bütün, PhD Student, Applied Physics, Yale University, USA.

• Dr. Shahla Golghasemi Sorkhabi (postdoc alumnus), Research Scientist, Faculte des Sciences, Université d’Angers, France.

• Dr. Sueda Saylan (postdoc alumnus),  Assistant Professor, Applied Physics, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Atahan Garip, PhD Student, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, USA.

• Alperen Saltik,  PhD Student, Physics, Institute of Laser Tools (IFSW), University of Stuttgart, Germany.

• Ahsan Tauseef, Research and Development Engineer,  Digital Modelling and Structural Design,  BEKO Global.

• Aqiq Ishraq, PhD Student, Quantum Photonics Group, Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Dalaware, USA.

• Ahmet Turnali, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, USA.

• Mertcan Han, PhD Student, Department of Physical Intelligence, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

• Emre Ergecen, PhD Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.