The results of the 2025 First Call for the TÜBİTAK 2232-A International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Program and the 2232-B International Fellowship for Early-Stage Researchers Program have been announced. Six researchers hosted by Bilkent University have been awarded funding, securing TRY 82.4 million in research support. The funded projects will[Read More…]
Prof. Erdal Arıkan of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering received the 2026 Eduard Rhein Technology Award for contributions to polar coding and its use in fifth-generation mobile communications (5G). He shares the award with Norbert Stolte and Ido Tal. The work addresses a central problem in communications engineering:[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Bülent Batuman, chair of the Department of Architecture, edited “Cities and Islamisms: On the Politics and the Production of the Built Environment,” published by Routledge in 2021. A Turkish edition of the volume has recently been published by Dipnot Yayınları with the title “Kentler ve İslamcılıklar: Mekan, Mimarlık,[Read More…]
Tuğba Özden Bayar, faculty member in the Department of International Relations, received a Highly Commended recognition in the 2026 UACES Excellence in Teaching Award, which honors exceptional commitment, creativity and impact in the teaching of contemporary European studies. Founded in 1967, UACES is an international membership organization for academics and[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Efe Tokdemir, faculty member in the Department of International Relations, received the American Political Science Association (APSA) MENA Politics Section’s 2025 Best Paper Award for the paper “Ethnic Cues and Conflict-Triggered Harassment: Evidence from Soccer Fields,” written with Aslı Cansunar of the University of Washington and Arzu Kıbrıs[Read More…]
Dr. Kirill Chepurin from the Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas is the recipient of this year’s Klaus Heyne Award. The award, conferred by Goethe University Frankfurt, recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions in the field of German Romanticism. Dr. Chepurin received the award in recognition of his important monograph, “Bliss against[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Yıldıray Yıldız of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has begun serving as Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee 9.2, Systems and Control for Societal Impact, for the 2026–29 triennium. The handover from the outgoing chair, Mariana Netto of Université Gustave Eiffel, took place[Read More…]
Prof. Refet Gürkaynak, faculty member in the Department of Economics, has been appointed Vice President for Special Projects at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), one of the world’s most prestigious international networks for economic policy and research. In this international leadership role, Prof. Gürkaynak will lead the development[Read More…]
According to the results of the 2026 First Call Period, 26 researchers from Bilkent University and the National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) have been awarded funding under the TÜBİTAK 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program. Bilkent faculty members and postdoctoral researchers who secured funding under the 2026 First[Read More…]
In the 2025 call of the TÜBİTAK 2236-A Co-Funded Brain Circulation Scheme 3 (CoCirculation3) Programme, 51 proposals were selected for funding, five of them at Bilkent University. Supported under the European Commission’s Horizon Europe MSCA COFUND program, CoCirculation3 supports experienced researchers conducting research at institutions in Türkiye. The five Bilkent[Read More…]
