Two Faculty Members Awarded 2566 TUBITAK-NSFC Bilateral Research Grant

Two Faculty Members Awarded 2566 TUBITAK-NSFC Bilateral Research Grant The most intense interest in bilateral cooperation was to the call for 2566 between China National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and TUBITAK. As a result, 2 of our projects were funded. Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Emrah Özensoy and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ferdi Karadaş. For […]

Karadas Research Group’s Work Appears on the Cover of Chemical Communications

Karadas Research Group’s Work Appears on the Cover of Chemical Communications Recent studies of Karadas Research Group, led by Assoc. Prof. Ferdi Karadas, featured on the cover page of Chemical Communications, a leading journal on chemistry, materials science, and their interdisciplinary domains published by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry. In their recent work, […]

Emrah Ozensoy Wins Sedat Simavi Science Award

Emrah Ozensoy Wins Sedat Simavi Science Award Prof. Emrah Özensoy, chair of the Department of Chemistry, has won the 2022 Sedat Simavi Foundation Science Award for his work “Unraveling Molecular Fingerprints of Catalytic Sulfur Poisoning at the Nanometer Scale with Near-Field Infrared Spectroscopy”, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society which is the […]

Yunus Turkmen Awarded 2022 TUBA-GEBIP Award

Yunus Turkmen Awarded 2022 TUBA-GEBIP Award One of the researchers who earned this year’s Outstanding Young Scientist Awards from the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) for his work on organic chemistry is Assistant Professor Yunus Emre Turkmen from the Department of Chemistry at Bilkent University. To honor and encourage young, exceptional researchers working in the […]

New Commentary on 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

New Commentary on 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Dr. Yunus Emre Turkmen, an assistant professor of organic chemistry in our department, has published a commentary on 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was awarded to click chemistry works of Barry Sharpless, Bertozzi, and Mandel this year. His commentary provides a brief overview on what “click” […]

Ozensoy Research Group’s Work Appears on the Cover of Journal of the American Chemical Society

Ozensoy Research Group’s Work Appears on the Cover of Journal of the American Chemical Society A collaborative research team led by Professor Emrah Ozensoy of Bilkent University Chemistry Department and UNAM recently published a paper entitled “Unraveling Molecular Fingerprints of Catalytic Sulfur Poisoning at the Nanometer Scale with Near-Field Infrared Spectroscopy”, which appeared on the […]

Freshman to Attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Freshman to Attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting İsmail Yaşar Kökçüler, a first-year student in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected to attend this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. These annual meetings, held for the purpose of promoting global scientific exchange, bring young scientists together with as many as 30–40 Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany.  […]

Ferdi Karadas Receives Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Award

Ferdi Karadas Receives Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Award Associate Professor Ferdi Karadas of Bilkent Chemistry Department has been selected to receive the prestigious Georg Forster Research Award of Humboldt Foundation, after a nomination from Friedrich Schiller University and Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technology in Germany. He was recognized for his pioneering work […]

Baytekin Research Group’s Work on New Scientist

Baytekin Research Group’s Work on New Scientist The article titled “Self-Regulating Plant Robots: Bioinspired Heliotropism and Nyctinasty” authored by Suleyman Doruk Cezan, Hasan Tarik Baytekin, and Bilge Baytekin (https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2019.0036) is highlighted in popular science magazine, New Scientist. Bilge Baytekin, associate professor at our department and head of Baytekin Research Group

New Article is Accepted as a Cover in the Journal of Physical Chemistry

New Article is Accepted as a Cover in the Journal of Physical Chemistry The cover which illustrates matching experimental and modeling results of the potential distribution of ionic liquids under applied electrical perturbation. XPS provides an experimental probe of the local potential and modeling that can be done through simple electrostatics in addition to the pairing […]