Prof. Canan VARLIKLI

Prof. Canan VARLIKLI received her BSc and MSc degree from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir in 1995 and 1998, respectively. She has been awarded with NATO A2 scholarship, completed some part of her PhD thesis in Prof. Dr. C.S. Foote Laboratories in University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA (2001-2002) and obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2003. She held postdoctoral researches in Imperial Collage London, Electronic Materials Section, UK and University of Patras, Engineering Science Department, Patras, Greece. She acts as the Molecular Photonics research group leader on since 2005 and works as a full professor at İzmir Institute of Technology, Department of Photonics since 2016.Research interests comprise; photonic materials and their application in heterogeneous photocatalysis, DSSCs, OPVs, OLEDs. She acted as supervisor in nearly 20 graduate theses completed in this field, served as an inventor in 3 patents and as an author in 50+ international publications.