Ekmel Özbay
Ekmel Ozbay is a well-known professor of Physics and Electrical and Electronics Engineering department in Bilkent University. He is also the director of Nanotechnology Research Center in Ankara. His research areas include Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, MOCVD growth, fabrication and characterization of nanoelectronic and nanophotonic GaN/AlGaN devices and High performance near-infrared semiconductor photodetectors and lasers.
Biography
Prof. Dr. Ekmel Ozbay was born on March 25, 1966 in Ankara, Turkey. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1983. He received his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering, in 1989 and 1992. From 1992-1993, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in Stanford University. His research in Stanford focused on high speed resonant tunneling and optoelectronic devices. Between 1993 and 1995, he worked as a scientist in DOE Ames national laboratory in Iowa State University in the area of photonic band gap materials. He joined Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in physics department and also in department of electrical electronics engineering. His research in Bilkent involves metamaterials, photonic crystals, GaN/AlGaN MOCVD growth, fabrication and characterization of GaN based devices, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, plasmonics, and high speed optoelectronics. He is the 1997 recipient of the Adolph Lomb Medal of Optical Society of America and 2005 European Union Descartes Science award. He is also the recipient of 1995 Parlar Foundation young scientist, 1996 Tugac foundation technology development, 1997 TUBITAK young scientist, 1998 Sedat Simavi Foundation Science awards. He is working as a topical editor of Optics Letters journal since 2002. He has published 108 articles in SCI journals, and 135 international conference proceedings. His publications have received more than 1800 SCI citations. He holds 2 patents in the area of photonic crystals. He has given 45 invited talks in international conferences. His recent review article on plasmonics appeared as an invited review article in Jan. 12th 2006 issue of Science Magazine. He is currently working as a principal investigator, and executive committee member in 3 EU-FP projects. These include a STREP project EU-DALHM (Development and Analysis of Left Handed Materials), NoE-PHOREMOST (Nanophotonics to realize Molecular-Scale Technologies), and NoE-METAMORPHOSE (MetaMaterials ORganized for radio, millimeter wave, and PHOtonic Superlattice Engineering). Besides these EU projects, he is the principal investigator of 8 national projects supported by various funding agencies. He has worked with various high-tech companies in USA, Europe and Turkey. He is currently acting as the national delegate for Turkey in the program committee of EU-NMP (nanotechnologies, manufacturing and processes) which is in the process of preparing the workprogramme for EU-FP7.