Prof. Bülent ÇAKMAK

Prof. Bülent ÇAKMAK received his B.Sc. and Ph. D degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Blacksea Technical University, Turkey and University of Bristol in United Kingdom, in 1990 and 2000, respectively. During his Ph.D work, he studied fabrication and characterisation of Q-switched long wavelength semiconductor lasers. From 2007 to 2012,he was an associate professor of electronics with the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atatürk University. For different periods in 2003, 2004 and 2007, he was a visiting fellow at University of Bristol. In 2012, he became a full professor of electronics at Atatürk University. He joined to Erzurum Technical University in 2016 and was appointed to the position of rector in 2018, which position he holds currently. His research interests include fabrication of diode lasers, Q-switching, chirped semiconductor lasers for production of ultrashort pulses, modelling of tapered waveguide structures.