Volume 13, Number 14
19 December
2006





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Bilkent Professors Elected as TÜBA Associate Members


Two members of the Faculty of Science have been inducted into the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). In December 2006 TÜBA announced that Associate Professors Ömer Dağ and Oğuz Gülseren of the faculty of Science, were elected as Associate members.

Dr. Oğuz Gülseren, from the Department of Physics, received his Ph.D. from Bilkent University in 1992, and went on to work at various prestigious research institutions in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States before joining the Physics Department at Bilkent in 2002. Dr. Gülseren received the TÜBİTAK/TWAS Young Scientist Award in 2003 and the Science award of Istanbul University in 2002. His area of interest is nanoscience and material properties in condensed matter Physics.

Dr. Ömer Dağ, from the Department of Chemistry, received his Ph.D from Middle East Technical University in 1994. Dr. Dağ was awarded a TÜBİTAK (Turkish Scientific and Research Council) Ph.D. scholarship in 1991, a certificate of successful microgravity studies by the Canadian Space Agency in 1997, a TÜBİTAK Encouragement Award in 2001 and a TÜBA Young Investigator Science Fellowship in 2002. His area of research interest focuses on the synthesis and characterization of mesostructured and nanostructured materials (metals, metal oxides, metal sulfides, and metal selenides) and liquid crystalline systems.




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