Ekmel Ozbay
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 and
Electronics engineering. His research in Bilkent involves nanophotonics,
nanometamaterials, nanoelectronics, nanoplasmonics, nanodevices, photonic
crystals, GaN/AlGaN MOCVD growth, fabrication and characterization of GaN based
devices, 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, 2006 TUBITAK Science awards. He
is working as a topical editor of Optics Letters
journal since 2002. He became the editor of Photonics
and Nanostructures journal in 2006. He has published 169 articles in SCI
journals, and 202 international conference proceedings. His publications have
received more than 3000 SCI citations. He holds 2 patents in the area of
photonic crystals. He has given 63 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 5 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), EU-ECONAM (Electromagntetic Characterization of Nanostructured
Materials), and EU-PHOME (PHOtonic Metamaterials). Besides these EU projects,
he is the principal investigator of 10 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 preparing the
workprogramme and the project calls for EU-FP7.
He is also working as the national representative for the nanotechnology
programs in EU-COST projects. Prof. Dr. Ozbay is married and the father of Imre, Esen, Sedef,
Firat, and Umut.