RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 

AWARDS

PATENTS

•  Associate Professor Barış Coşkunüzer, Science Faculty Member in Mathematics, received many prestigious awards such as Sedat Simavi Science Award, İkeda Research Award, Parlar Encouragement Award and TUBA-GEBİP Award. His main areas of interest are geometric topology and minimal surfaces theory. The article of Dr. Coşkunüzer which was published in American Journal of Mathematics can be found here.  See more...

•  Prof. Dr. Ali Serpengüzel, who has many memberships in prestigious societies and committees such as European Physical Society  (Turkish representation), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (Senior member), IEEE Photonics Society (PS), Turkey Chapter

(Former vice president, charter member), Optical Committee of Turkey (Former president, charter member), American Physical Society, European Optical Society, is the director of Koc University Microphotonics Laboratory. Among

his main areas of interest, there are optical fiber communication, silicon photonics, laser spectroscopy laser diagnostics and also desing, fabrication, characterization and testing of novel optoelectronic devices. See more...

•  Assistant Professor Funda Yağcı Acar has many patents such as “Copolyetherimide”, “Cationic nanoparticle having an inorganic core”, “Nanoparticles coated with biocompatible polymers as MRI contrast agent.”  She is the director of Koç University Polymer and Nonamaterial Research Laboratory. Her research group focuses mostly

on projects involving nanoparticles, polymers and hybrid materials combining the two. See more...

TÜBA/TÜBİTAK AWARDS
2011 Sinan Ünver TÜBA GEBİP*1 (Mathematics)

2011 Menderes Işkın TÜBA

GEBİP*1 (Physics)

2009 Tolga Etgü TÜBİTAK Encouragement (Natural Sciences)

2009 Barış Coşkunüzer TÜBA GEBİP*1 (Mathematics)
2008 Alper Kiraz TÜBİTAK Encouragement (Physics)

2008 Emre Alkan TÜBA GEBİP*1 (Mathematics)

2007 Ali Mostafazadeh TÜBİTAK Science (Mathematical Physics)

2007 Özgür Müstecaplıoğlu TÜBİTAK Encouragement (Physics)

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INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Özgür Birer - UNESCO Office

Grant - 2011 

Gülayşe İnce Dunn - L'OREAL Turkey National Fellowship for

Young Women in Science - 2011

Murat Somer - Sakıp Sabancı International Research

Award - 2009

H.Funda Yağcı Acar - L'OREAL Turkey National Fellowship for Women in Science - 2008
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Other Achievements

2010 - Tekin Dereli - The Council

of Higher Education of Turkey,

Natural Science Commission

Member

2010 - İskender Yılgör - Europe Science Foundation Physics and Engineering Sciences Lifelong Committee TÜBİTAK Representative

2009 - İskender Yılgör - TÜBİTAK Science Council Member

A. LEVENT DEMİREL 

· Superhidrophobic polypropylene film and coating method - A. L. Demirel, H. Y. Erbil, Y. Duman, O. Mert, 2004

FUNDA YAĞCI ACAR
· Benzimidazole diamine-based polyetherimide compositions and methods for making them - Havva Yagci Acar, Daniel Brunelle, 2004    
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EMEL YILGÖR
· HYPERBRANCHED SEGMENTED COPOLYMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEM - I. Yilgor, S. Unal, E. Yilgor and T. E. Long, 2003
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İSKENDER YILGÖR
· HYPERBRANCHED SEGMENTED COPOLYMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEM - I. Yilgor, S. Unal, E. Yilgor and T. E. Long, 2003
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