Koç University College of Sciences

Dean’s Message

The mission of Koç University, College of Sciences is to educate future leaders who can design strategies based on scientific principles and to do cutting-edge research with high impact. We educate our undergraduate and graduate students with highest ethical and professional standards, with appreciation of life-long learning and growth and with interdisciplinary perspective in addition to in-depth fundamental knowledge. Our criteria of success is not only to attract the best students, but also to create opportunities for our students to improve themselves so that our graduates are the top choice of both industry and academia. For this, we include our students starting from their first year as researchers in our ongoing projects that find answers to important scientific questions and combine fundamental science and applications by interdisciplinary approaches.<br>

In these pages, you can find the research areas of our excellent faculty members who inspire our students by encouraging them to think and question, and the details of our technical and laboratory infrastructure that allow our students and faculty members to realize their ideas in creating fundamental scientific knowledge and new leading technologies. Prospective undergraduate and graduate students; prospective faculty members & instructors; and those who would like to collaborate synergistically in teaching, research and service to society at-large, please contact us: cs@ku.edu.tr.

Prof. H. Funda Yağcı Acar
Dean, College of Sciences

College of Sciences
in Numbers

44

Full-Time Faculty Members

56

Active National and International Projects

7

TÜBİTAK
Science Awards

14

TÜBİTAK
Encouragement Awards

21

TÜBA-GEBİP
Awards

2

European Research
Council (ERC)
Grants

273

Undergraduate
Students

Vehbi Koç Scholars

The List of Vehbi Koç Honor Students between 1993-2020

Honors and Awards

ATTİLA AŞKAR 1993
TEKİN DERELİ 1996
ALİ ÜLGER 1998
İSKENDER YILGÖR 2003
ALİ MOSTAFAZADEH 2007
UMRAN İNAN 2010
ALPHAN SENNAROĞLU 2013
ATTİLA AŞKAR 1973
TEKİN DERELİ 1982
ERSİN YURTSEVER 1983
ALPHAN SENNAROĞLU 1998
HALUK REŞAT 1998
LEVENT DEMİREL 1999
NEJAT BULUT 2001
ÖZGÜR MÜSTECAPLIOĞLU 2007
ALPER KİRAZ 2008
TOLGA ETGÜ 2009
MENDERES IŞKIN 2012
ÖNDER METİN 2017
NURHAN ÖZLÜ SICAKKAN 2019
ELİF NUR FIRAT KARALAR 2021
MEHMET CENGİZ ONBAŞLI 2022
TOLGA ETGÜ 2005
SELDA KÜÇÜKÇİFTÇİ 2006
EMİNE ŞULE YAZICI 2007
EMRE ALKAN 2008
KAZIM BÜYÜKBODUK 2010
MENDERES IŞKIN 2011

Alumni

I still do have great feelings about my days spent during University years. Until one reaches old enough to attend a University, he/she is surrounded with a limited world view given by the people at hand. But Koc University has helped me to follow an independent future with a light of self-confidence. As a result I was feeling myself as a world citizen when I graduated. Koc University has proven me that attending a college does not mean only to attend a set of courses, it is way beyond that.

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Selçuk Artut

1998 | Mathematic Departments Graduate

The only thing I was sure of when I graduated from high school was that I wanted to study molecular biology and genetics in order to satisfy my passion about understanding the universe. My family wanted me to become a doctor. I , in a way, fulfilled both their dream and mine by studying at Koç University. I could not have found answers to the “Why?” questions I had, if I had not studied MBGE. KU not only equips us academicaly but it also provides tons of extracurricular opportunities. I discovered my interest in nature sports at KU. We climbed the peaks of Ilgaz and Ağrı Mountains with the KU supported Mountaineering Club. KU will continue to provide great opportunities for academic and social advancement for the prospective students just like it did with me.

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Derya Kabacaoğlu

2008 | Molecular Biology and Genetics Graduate