UNAM Researchers Honored

SPIE Innovation Award Goes to UNAM Graduate Students

UNAM (Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology) graduate students Burak Türker, Hasan Güner, Öner Ekiz and Serkan Karayalçın, who are pursuing their academic research under the guidance of Assoc. Prof. Aykutlu Dana, received a runner-up award for their research project presented at the SPIE Photonics Europe conference, held in Brussels April 15-19.

SPIE is a leading international society for the fields of optics and photonics. Its Photonics Europe conference includes an "Innovation Village" to promote some of the world's most promising research projects. Dr. Dana's students were chosen as one of the final 16 teams for their project "MoBiSense: A Truly Low-Cost and Disposable Molecular Sensor as a Multi-Purpose Sensing Platform." Following the team's mini-booth presentations at the conference, a judging committee led by SPIE's president, Prof. Eustace Dereniak, selected their project to receive (as runner-up) the society's prestigious award for innovation.

 

UNAM Researcher Receives Fellowship

Asst. Prof. Ayse Begüm Tekinay of UNAM (Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology) has been awarded a L'Oreal Turkey Young Women in Science Fellowship for her studies in regenerative medicine.

 

Bilkent PhD Student to Attend Nobel Laureate Meeting

Hakan Ceylan, a second-year PhD student at UNAM, has been selected by TÜBİTAK as the nation's nominee to attend the 62nd Nobel Laureate Meeting, to be held in Lindau, Germany, in July.

This year's conference is dedicated to physics, and will bring together Nobel laureates and young researchers from more than 70 countries.