Prof. Ekmel ÖZBAY

Prof. Dr. Ekmel Ozbay received M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering, in 1989 and 1992. He worked as a postdoc in Stanford University and later as a scientist in Iowa State University. He joined Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in Physics and EEE Departments. In 2003, he founded Bilkent University Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM) where he leads a research group working on nanophotonics, nanometamaterials, nanoelectronics, and GaN based devices. He is the 1997 recipient of the Adolph Lomb Medal of  OSA and 2005 European Union Descartes Science award. He worked as an editor for Optics Letters, PNFA, SPIE JNP and IEEE JQE journals. He has published 640+ articles in SCI journals. His papers have received 23,000+ SCI citations with an h-index of 70. He is also the CEO of a spin-off company: AB-MicroNano Inc., which is founded to commercialize the technologies developed in NANOTAM.