Faculty
Engin Umut Akkaya
Professor
Fahri Alkan
Assistant Professor
Organic Chemistry
Theoretical Chemistry
Visit Engin Umut Akkaya’s website
Email: eua [at] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Visit Alkan Research Group’s website
Email: fahri.alkan [at] bilkent.edu.tr
Akkaya Group is interested in activatable photodynamic photosensitizers, altering photodynamic action toward novel cancer drugs, and information processing (smart) therapeutic agents and molecular probes.
Alkan Research Group focuses on the development of a theoretical framework for the correlations between electronic structure, energetics, and photophysical properties of atomically precise nanoclusters and coupled plasmonic systems.
Bilge Baytekin
Associate Professor
Todd Cowen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Organic and Materials Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Visit Baytekin Research Group’s website
Email: b-baytekin [at] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Visit Cowen Research Group’s website
Email: toddcowen [at] bilkent.edu.tr
Baytekin Group is interested in problems related with mechanical to chemical energy conversions, synthesizing materials and producing new materials to build complex systems with the help of organic chemistry, and understand the molecular mechanism of electrostatics.
Cowen Lab is focused on the analysis of molecular imprinting as a phenomenon, and the development of molecularly imprinted polymers for analytical applications, with an emphasis on the suitability of imprinted materials for volatile organic compound vapor detection.
Ömer Dağ
Professor
Ferdi Karadaş
Associate Professor
Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Visit Dag Research Group’s website
Email: dag [at] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Visit Karadas Research Group’s website
Email: karadas [at] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Dag Research Group is a research team working on the synthesis, characterization, and application of lyotropic liquid crystals and nanostructured materials.
Karadas Research Group has been interested in the utilization of cyanide-based inorganic and organometallic compounds for water splitting, by combining specific units step-by-step to harvest solar light and convert it to chemical energy.
Zeki Kuruoğlu
Halil İbrahim Okur
Emeritus Professor
Assistant Professor
Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
Biophysical Chemistry
Email: kuruoglu [at] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Visit Okur Research Group’s website
Email: halil.okur [at] bilkent.edu.tr
Professor Kuruoglu mainly focuses on the state-of-art problems in chemical reaction dynamics, quantum theory of scattering, few-body problems, and numerical methods for quantum mechanical calculations.
Okur Research Group aims to elucidate chemical processes occurring at biointerfaces, including biological lipid membranes, surfaces of biomacromolecules, nucleic acids, and air/water interfaces, using nonlinear optics and modeling to reach a molecular level detailed picture.
Emrah Özensoy
Professor
Şefik Süzer
Professor
Physical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Email: ozensoy [at] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Visit Suzer Research Group’s website
Email: suzer [at] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Ozensoy Lab focuses on the investigation of catalytic nanomaterials and processes for alternative energy production, energy conversion, sustainability, environment and aerospace.
Suzer Research Group focuses the problems about layer-by-layer deposition and their antibacterial applications, electrical investigation on nano-scale structures with dynamic XPS, tribochemistry investigation of various materials, wettability of surfaces.
Burak Ülgüt, Associate Professor
Department Chair
Yunus Emre Türkmen
Assistant Professor
Electrochemistry
Organic Chemistry
Visit Ulgut Research Group’s website
Email: ulgut [at] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Visit Turkmen Research Group’s website
Email: yeturkmen [at] gmail.com
Ulgut Research Group is centered on developing new measurement tools/methods around the ideas of electrochemistry. The measurements we are trying to develop all answer needs that are currently unmet. The group is working on developing measurement tools that are mostly inspired by problems of energy storage and conversion systems. The group is developing the toolbox for proper measurement and investigation of energy storage and conversion systems.
Türkmen Research Group focuses on the development of new heterocyclic reactions central to medicinal chemistry, template-directed photochemical reactions, the use of non-covalent interactions for organocatalysis, and total synthesis of biologically active natural products.