PeopleDirector’s Office
Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir
Director
UNAM-National Nanotechnology Research Center
Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology

Contact Details
+90 (312) 290 1021
+90 (312) 266 4365
volkan@bilkent.edu.tr
UNAM Director’s Office
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Demir Research Group – Device & Sensors Research Labrotary
Institution
Professor, Department of Physics
Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Associate Member, Turkish Academy of Science
Research Interest
Nanophotonics, nanocrystal optoeelectronics, devices and sensors, light-emitting diodes, lighting, energy research.
Education
Stanford University, PhD, 2004
Stanford University, MS, 2000
Bilkent University Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, BS, 1998
Ankara Fen Lisesi, 1994
Awards
National Research Foundation – NRF Investigatorship Award – 2015
Nanyang Award for Research Excellence – 2013
Elected Associate Member of National Academy of Sciences, Turkey (TUBA) – 2012
IEEE Senior Membership – 2012
The Rank Prize International Scholar, The Rank Prize Funds, UK – 2011
Singapore NRF Fellowship Award – 2009
TUBITAK – TESVIK (Young Scientist) Award – 2009
Parlar Foundation Young Scientist Award – 2008
European Science Foundation European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) – 2007
JCI Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs TOYP Honoree – 2007
TUBA GEBIP – 2006
Patents: >30, SCI Journal publications: >200, Invited talks, seminars, colloquia: >150
Representative Publications
- Near-Unity Emitting Copper-Doped Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Wells for Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Advanced Materials, 29, 1700821 (2017). - High-Efficiency Optical Gain in Type-II Semiconductor Nanocrystals of Alloyed Colloidal Quantum Wells
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8, 5317 (2017) - Near-Field Energy Transfer Using Nanoemitters For Optoelectronics
Advanced Functional Materials, 28, 8158 (2016) (Invited Feature Article) - Stable and Low Threshold Optical Gain in CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots: All-Colloidal Frequency Up-Converted Laser
Advanced Materials, 27, 2678 (2015) - Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Lasing in Colloidal Nanoplatelets
ACS Nano, 8, 6599 (2014)
Özgür Yıldırım
Associate Director
Infrastructure Manager
UNAM-National Nanotechnology Research Center
Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology

Contact Details
+90 (312) 290 3500
+90 (312) 266 4365
ozgur.yildirim@unam.bilkent.edu.tr
UNAM Director’s Office
Education
Middle East Technical University, MS, 2000
Middle East Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, BS, 1997
Ankara Fen Lisesi, 1992
Experience
Aselsan MGEO, 2006 – 2018
Milsoft, 2005 – 2006
Aselsan MGEO, 1998 – 2005
ETC, 1998 – 1998
TÜBİTAK, 1997 – 1998
T. Serkan Kasırga
Associate Director
UNAM-National Nanotechnology Research Center
Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology

Contact Details
+90 (312) 290 8026
+90 (312) 266 4365
kasirga@unam.bilkent.edu.tr
UNAM Director’s Office
webpage
Research Interest
Strongly correlated materials, 2D materials
Education
PhD: University of Washington, 2013
Representative Publications
- Measurement of a solid-state triple point: the metal-insulator transition in VO2
Nature, volume 500, page 431 (2013) - Photoresponse of a strongly correlated material determined by scanning photocurrent microscopy
Nature Nanotechnology, volume 7, page 723 (2012) - Microfluidics for reconfigurable electromagnetic metamaterials
Applied Physics Letters, volume 195, page 214102 (2009)
Dönüş Tuncel
Associate Director
UNAM-National Nanotechnology Research Center
Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology

Contact Details
+90 (312) 290 3577
+90 (312) 266
dtuncel@fen.bilkent.edu.tr
UNAM Director’s Office
webpage
Institution
Assoc. Prof., Department of Chemistry
Research Interest
Design and synthesis of novel organic and inorganic/organic hybrid, nanostructured functional materials with potential applications in the areas of photonics, photocatalysis and bionanotechnology
Education
PhD: University of Cambridge and Imperial College
Representative Publications
- Cucurbit[7]uril-threaded fluorene–thiophenebased conjugated polyrotaxanes
RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 98109-98116 - High-Stability, High-Efficiency Organic Monoliths Made of Oligomer Nanoparticles Wrapped in Organic Matrix
ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (5), 5333–5339 - Construction of multi-layered white emitting organic nanoparticles by clicking polymers
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2015, 3, 10277-10284 - High-Stability, High-Efficiency Organic Monoliths Made of Oligomer Nanoparticles Wrapped in Organic Matrix
ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (5), 5333–5339 - Synthesis and investigation of singlet oxygen production efficiency of photosensitizers based on meso-phenyl-2,5-thienylene linked porphyrin oligomer and polymers
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015, 13, 330-347 - pH-Responsive Near-Infrared Emitting Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for Cellular Imaging and Controlled-Drug Delivery
J. Polym. Sci. A Polym. Chem., 2015, 53, 114-122 - Cucurbituril-based supramolecularly engineered nanostructured materials
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015, 13, 330-347 - Red Emitting, Cucurbituril-Capped, pH-Responsive Conjugated Oligomer-Based Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Cellular Imaging
Biomacromolecules, 2014, 15, 3366-3374 - Conjugated polymer nanoparticles
Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 484-494 (Invited Feature Article, 2010-May, June, July, Top Ten articles)