EDUCATION

2009-2014 Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Advisor: Professor Hatice Altug, PhD

Thesis: Engineering of Plasmonic Excitations for Hand-Held and Ultra-Sensitive Biosensors, December 2013

2013-2014 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

Visiting PhD Student in Institute of Bioengineering, Advisor: Professor Hatice Altug

2007-2009 Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Advisor: Professor Ozgur E. Mustecaplioglu

Thesis: Non-Local Effects on Surface Plasmon Theory and Their Novel Applications: Nano-Scale Plasmonic Structures, July 2009

2002-2007 Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY

BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Advisor: Professor M. Irsadi Aksun

Thesis: Photonic Crystal Patch Antenna Substrate for Strong Directional Radiation Pattern, June 2007

 

PAST WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2016-2018 Omniome, Inc. San Diego, CA 92121, USA

Research Scientist

2015-2016 Koch Institute for Interactive Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Postdoctoral Researcher Scott Manalis' Lab.

2014-2015 Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

Postdoctoral Researcher Hatice Altug's Lab.

2010-2014 Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Research Assistant Hatice Altug's Lab. (Laboratory of Integrated Nanophotonics & Biosensing Systems)

2009-2010 Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Photonics Junior Fellow at Precision Measurement Laborator (PML)

2007-2009 College of Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY

Research Assistant Ozgur E. Mustecaplioglu's Lab.

2005-2007 College of Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY

Research Assistant M. Irsadi Aksun's Lab. (Microwave and Antenna Research Laboratory)

2005-2006 Mikes AS, Ankara, TURKEY

Internee in System Engineering Group. Project title: Simulation of noise and filter models.

2004-2005 Havelsan AS, Ankara, TURKEY

Internee in Analysis Design Group. Project name: Simulation and analysis of genetic algorithm.

2004-2005 College of Art and Science, Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY

Research Assistant Alphan Sennaroglu's Lab. (Laser and Optic Systems Laboratory)

 

HONOR & AWARDS

2023 Doktorclub Awards, Finalist in the Innovative Healthcare Professional / Healthcare Professional of the Year Awards

2023 JCI TOYP-International Finalist, 10 Successful Young People in the World

TOYP = Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Program by Junior Chamber International (JSI).

2022 TTGV Awards, Refik Ureyen Leadership Stories in R&D Organizations Category Award, Technology Development Foundation of Turkey

2022 Sedat Simavi Awards, Health Sciences Category Award, Turkish Journalists Association

2022 TOYP-Turkey Winner, 10 Successful Young People in Turkey, Science and Technical Development Category

Award given by JSI Turkey Branch.

2022 Turkish Academy of Sciences - Outstanding Young Scientists Award (TÜBA-GEBİP)

2022 Dr. Aysun-Ahmet Küçükel Medicine Awards, Best Scientific Research Award, Guven Education and Health Foundation

2021 TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Incentive Award.

2021 Young Scientist Award, The Science Heroes Association

2020 Ocean Insight 2020-21 Grant Program, The Inspiration Award

2020 Doktorclub Awards, Finalist in the R&D / Innovation Application of the Year

2020 TUSEB (Health Institutes of Turkey) Aziz Sancar Incentive Award.

2019 Young Scientist (BAGEP) Award, Science Academy

2018 TUBITAK 2232 Career Integration Fellowship

2016 Koch Institute Quinquennial Cancer Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2015 EUROPT(R)ODE XII Conference (Athens / Greece, April 13-16, 2014) Best Poster Award

2012 Boston University - Center for Nanoscience & Nanobiotechnology Award

2009 Boston University - Photonics Center Junior Fellowship

2008 TUBITAK Travel Scholarship (No: 2224-A)

2007 TUBITAK Graduate Scholarship. 2-year full scholarship (No: 2228-A)

2002 Koc University - Vehbi Koc Scholarship. 5-year full scholarship

 

PEER-REVIEW ACTIVITIES

ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Science Advances, Advanced Science, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Sensors and Actuators A, Sensors and Actuators B, Scientific Reports, ACS Photonics, Applied Physics Letters, Advanced Optical Materials, Optics Express, Communications Biology, Biomedical Optics Express, Communications Biology, Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications, Materials, Sensors, Physica D, Chinese Optics Letters, Photonics, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Photonics Journal, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, Molecules, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, Journal of Material Chemistry C, Journal of Modern Optics, Journal of Applied Physics A, Open Physics Journal, Nanomaterials, Current Nanoscience, Micro and Nanosystems, Optics and Laser Technology, Superlattices and Microstructures, Science of the Total Environment, Frontiers in Chemistry, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Crystals, Indonesian Journal of Chemistry, Applied Sciences, Nanoscale Advances, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Applied Surface Science, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Plasmonics, Diamond and Related Materials, HardwareX, Analytical Biochemistry, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, Erciyes University Journal of the Institute of Science and Technology, Gumushane University Journal of Science, Gazi University Journal of Science Part C: Design and Technology, ACS Applied Optical Materials, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, npj Biosensing, Frontiers in Genetics, Applied Physics B, Journal of Computational Electronics.

 

Advisory Board Member (2021-2024) TUBITAK, SBAG Program Calls Advisory Board (CPDK)

Advisory Board Member (2021-2024) TUBITAK, Health Sciences Research Support Group (SBAG)

IBG Biosafety Committee Member (2023-Present)

IBG Industrial Property and Commercialization Board Member (2024-Present)

IBG Internship Committee Chair (2022-Present)

IBG Non-Interventional Research Ethics Committee Member (2024-Present)

 

Referee TUBITAK, TUSEB

Referee National Research and Development Agency of CHILE

Referee: National Science Centre POLAND

Referee Internal Research Proposals in Turkish Universities

 

Organization Committee Member IBG International Exposome-TR Workshop, September 2024, Izmir, TURKEY.

Organization Committee Member International Union of Radio Science, XI. URSI-TR 2023, September 2022, Istanbul, TURKEY.

Organization Committee Member Current Approaches in Bioengineering, Online Course, November 2021, Izmir, TURKEY.

Organization Committee Member IBG Science Day, November 2021, Izmir, TURKEY.

Scientific Committee Member, 17th International Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference, November 2019, Antalya, TURKEY.

Organization Committee Chair IBG External Seminars, (2019-2020), Izmir, TURKEY.

Organization Committee Chair National Optics, Electro-Optics and Photonics Workshop, (2020-Present), TURKEY.

Session Chair 15th International Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference, November 2019, Antalya, TURKEY.

Session Chair CLEO 2014, Photonic Crystals and Complex Plasmonic Nanostructures Section, June 2014, San Jose, CA, USA.

 

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

2022-Present MDPI Photonics. Co-Editor in the theme issue, “Optical Detection Techniques for Diagnostic Applications”.

2022-Present Frontiers in Chemistry. Associate Editor in Analytical Chemistry.

2020-2021 MDPI Molecules. Co-Editor in the theme issue, “Advances in Resonant Nanostructures and Their Applications in Molecular Spectroscopy and Sensing”.

2019-2020 Frontiers in Chemistry. Co-Editor in the theme issue, “Advances in Label-free Biosensors for the Detection of Cancer Biomarkers”.

 

MEMBERSHIPS

Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA)

Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV)

The Science Academy, Turkey

Optical Society of America (OSA)

The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

Materials Research Society (MRS)