INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. Abdullah Yıldız (Invited Speaker)

Abdullah Yıldız received his PhD in physics from Gazi University (Türkiye) in 2008 with a study on epitaxial ternary III-V semiconductor compounds.  He worked on the carrier transport phenomena associated with disorders. Thereafter he switched to the field of metal-oxide thin films and nanostructures for various optoelectronic device applications. With the research group he founded (yildizresearchgroup.com), he established a laboratory where many students carry out their graduate thesis studies. His group’s ongoing research interests concentrate on developing new materials for dye sensitive solar cells, perovskite solar cells, and photodetectors, and understanding and controlling the optoelectronic processes occurring within the devices. He is the author of 101 SCI articles.

 

 

 

Prof. Ali Bozbey (Invited Speaker)

Head of TOBB ETU Superconducting Electronics laboratory (ETU SEL), TOBB ETU University, Ankara, Türkiye. Dr. Ali Bozbey received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Türkiye, in 2001, 2003, and 2006, respectively. In 2002, he was a Guest Researcher with the Jülich Research Center, Jülich, Germany, and in 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Since 2008, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology (TOBB ETU), Ankara, where he teaches in the areas of semiconductor and superconductor electronics. His research interests include design, modelling, and applications of superconductor sensors and single flux quantum logic integrated circuits. He has acted/acts as a principal investigator/researcher for more than 10 projects in the field of superconducting Josephson circuits and sensors. He is the author of about 40 scientific papers, and supervised 10 MS/PhD theses. The topic to talk About: "Superconductor-based optical and electromagnetic sensors"

 

 

Prof. Dilber Esra Yıldız (Invited Speaker)

Dilber Esra Yıldız received the B.S. degree from the Physics Teaching Department, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Physics Department, Gazi University in 2002 and 2008, respectively. Her current research interests include MS, MOS, MIS and heterojunction structures, impedance spectroscopy, organic solar cells, gas sensor, supercapacitor, and photodiode. She is working as a Prof. Dr. in the Physics Department, Hitit University, Corum, Türkiye.

 

 

 

 

Prof. Emin Bacaksız (Invited Speaker)

Emin Bacaksiz is a Professor at Department of Physics,Science Faculty, Karadeniz Technical University, in Türkiye. His study areas mainly are; 1) Synthesis of nano and micro scale materials such as ZnO, CdTe, CdS etc.; (2) development, characterization and applications of novel doped materials such as Solar cells and Schottky diodes; (3)Synthesis and characterization of nano and micro materi-als as thin film and (4) The Synthesis and characterizationsof doped and un-doped semiconductors.

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Mustafa M. Demir (Invited Speaker)

Dean of Engineering Faculty at İzmir Institute of Technology, Dr. Mustafa M. Demir did his MS and Ph.D. studies in Materials Sciences and Engineering Programme at Sabancı University, Türkiye, in 2001 and 2004 respectively. He completed his post doc from Max Planck Polymer Research Institute in Mainz, Germany. Since 2007, he is serving as Professor at Izmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye. Dr. Mustafa M. Demir is also the Chairman of Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Institute. He has over 110 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His main research interests are Waste water Treatment, Material Characterization, Material Characteristics, Materials, Nanostructured Materials and Nanomaterials Synthesis. He will be speaking on polymer/particle composites.

 

 

 

Prof. Serap Güneş (Invited Speaker)

 

Assoc. Prof. Enes Yiğit (Invited Speaker)

Enes Yigit received the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mersin University, Mersin, Türkiye, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. From 2004 to 2007, he was a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mersin University, where he was an Instructor with the Technical Science Vocational High School, from 2007 to 2014. In 2015, he completed his post-doctoral research with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Türkiye. He is now an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa, Türkiye. His current research interests include SAR/ISAR and GPR imaging, artificial intelligence techniques, radar absorber material design, and optimization algorithms for radar applications. Dr. Yigit was a recipient of the Young Scientist Award by the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission-F in 2011.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. İkram Orak (Invited Speaker)

İkram ORAK was received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Ataturk University, Erzurum, Türkiye, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. He worked as a post-doc at Bilkent University 2014-1016. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Vocational School of Health Service, Bingöl University. He has more than 60 articles published. His current research interests include especially the fabrication of MOS and MIS structures, flash memory devices, and photo sensing applications for organic and inorganic structure.

 

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Saim Emin (Invited Speaker)

Saim Emin is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Nova, Slovenia. Before joining the University of Nova Gorica he spent a year as a postdoc at the National Institute of Materials Sience, Japan. He obtained his master and PhD degrees in 2017 and 2010 from Saitama University, Japan. His research focuses on synthesis of inorganic materials, electrocatalytic hydrogen generation, photoelectrocatalysis and in photovoltaics. Dr. Emin has co-athored more than 40 scientific papers and gave more than 15 invited talks. He served as chair of the International Conference on Functional Materials in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022 organized by the European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association. He has been a recepient of the prestigeous Marie-Curie Career Integration Grant, European Commission and has taken part as a principal investigator in bilateral/trilateral research projects between Slovenia-Türkiye (2013 – 2014), Slovenia-China (2015-2017), Slovenia-Israel (2018-2020), Slovenia-Poland-Austria (2021-2024). Dr. Emin is a founder of the European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Selçuk Demirezen (Invited Speaker)

Selçuk Demirezen: received his B.Ed. degree from Ondokuz Mayıs University, M.Sc. andPh.D. degrees from Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye, in 1999, 2001, and 2010, respectively. He is currently Asscociate Professor, Amasya University. His research interests includes polymeric Schottky type electronic devices, metal–insulator–semiconductor junctions, solar cells, photodiode and their electrical and dielectric properties depend on frequency, temperature, radiation and illumination.

 

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Serhat Orkun Tan (Invited Speaker)

Serhat Orkun Tan was born in Karabük, Türkiye in 1979. He received the B.S. degree from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Türkiye, in 2005, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Karabük University, Karabük, Türkiye, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. From 2005 to 2009 and 2010 to 2011, he was an Electrical Engineer with Erdemir, Zonguldak, Türkiye and NOV Asep Elmar TR, Kocaeli, Türkiye, respectively. He is currently a Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the department of Electrical Engineering, Technology Faculty, Karabük University. His current research interests include the electrical and dielectric properties of Schottky diodes, MS, MIS, and MOS structures, and solar cells. Having h-index=15, he is the author of more than 20 articles and received more than 500 citations to these articles. Dr. Tan received many certificates and awards by participating several international symposiums.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Yeşim Moğulkoç (Invited Speaker)

Yeşim Moğulkoç has an expertise in materials modelling using first principles calculations via density functional theory and beyond. She received a PhD in Physics Engineering in 2013 (Ankara University). She was supported by the Turkish Physics Foundation Scholarship for 5 years. In 2015, she had a postdoctoral position in Theory of Condensed Matter Group (www.ru.nl/tcm) at Radboud University (The Netherlands) under Turkish Scientific Council (TUBITAK) fellowship. She has attended many scientific organizations and co-authored more than 40 articles. She is contributing/contributed to several funded national projects (TUBITAK and Ankara University). Her research areas and fields of interest: theory of condensed matter physics, density functional theory and beyond, modelling and comprehensive electronic band structure calculations, 2D materials, molecular adsorption, spin-orbit interaction, 2D magnetism, many-body effects, spin-valves. She has a partnership with European FLAG-ERA project. She is one of principal investigator for 2D magnetic memories project.

 

 

Assist. Prof. İmran Akça Avcı (Invited Speaker)

B. İmran Akça received the B.Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the M.Sc. degree from the Institute of Material Science and Nanotechnology both from Bilkent University, Ankara, Türkiye, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the area of integrated optics in the Integrated Optical MicroSystems Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands., Her research interests include designing integrated arrayed waveguide grating spectrometers for optical coherence tomography systems.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Özgür Polat (Invited Speaker)

Özgür Polat has worked as a senior researcher at Central European Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in physics at The University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2009. After that he continued his research as a post-doc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As a principal investigator he completed different research projects, which were funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye and the European Science Foundation and Czech Education Ministry. He has more than 15 years of research experience with fabrication and characterization of thin films and nanostructures. So far, He has investigated a wide range of materials such as topological insulators, semiconductors, superconductors, multiferroics and so on

 

 

 

INVITED SPEAKERS
Prof. Abdullah Yıldız	Yıldırım Beyazıt University / TÜRKİYE
Prof. Ali Bozbey	TOBB ETU / TÜRKİYE
Prof. Emin Bacaksız	Karadeniz Teknik University / TÜRKİYE
Prof. Esra YıIdız	Hitit University / TÜRKİYE
Prof. Mustafa Muammer Demir	İzmir Institute of Technology / TÜRKİYE
Prof. Serap Güneş	Yıldız Technical University / TÜRKİYE
Assoc. Prof. Enes Yiğit	Uludağ University / TÜRKİYE
Assoc. Prof. İkram Orak	Bingöl University / TÜRKİYE
Assoc. Prof. Selçuk Demirezen	Amasya University / TÜRKİYE
Assoc. Prof. Serhat Orkun Tan	Karabük University / TÜRKİYE
Dr. İmran Akça Avcı	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / NETHERLANDS
Dr. Özgür Polat	Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) - Brno University of Technology / CZECH REPUBLIC