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 […]
Burak Ulgut Receives Distinguished Teaching Award for 2021
Burak Ulgut Receives Distinguished Teaching Award for 2021 The winners of the Distinguished Teaching Awards for 2021 have been revealed by Bilkent University. They are Hossein Dabir, who passed away in December and is receiving the honor posthumously, Lori Russell Dağ, Seçkin Köstem, and Burak Ülgüt. The four honorees were awarded for exhibiting exceptional teaching […]
Chemistry Department Lounge Opens
Chemistry Department Lounge Opens On March 20, a new lounge for Department of Chemistry opened in SB Building with a short ceremony attended by department chair as well as a number of faculty, staff, alumni and students. Thanks to Dr. Emrah Ozensoy, this appealing Meeting Room is now available to use of department. The lounge has been […]
MSCA Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Halil Okur
MSCA Fellowship to Dr. Halil Okur Asst. Prof. Halil I. Okur of the Department of Chemistry has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Individual Fellowship grant for two years. The MSCA program, an initiative of the European Commission, provides grants for all stages of researchers’ careers and encourages transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility. This […]