Prof. A. Tuba Ökse is considered a truly distinguished Turkish archaeology scholar who has achieved widespread international acclaim. Affiliated with Kocaeli University, she has completed and continues to lead numerous projects, expanding from Hittite sanctuaries in central Türkiye to the earliest Neolithic sites along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Upper Mesopotamia, enhancing our knowledge of Anatolian cultures[Read More…]
Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir (Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Department of Physics) and his team from the Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) developed high efficiency flexible light-emitting diodes based on self-assembled colloidal quantum well monolayers with remarkable mechanical robustness. These high efficiency flexible LEDs maintain their[Read More…]
UNAM Asst. Prof. Fatih İnci has been awarded the 2025 Eczacıbaşı Medical Incentive Award. Recognized for his innovative work in health sciences as well as in biotechnology, biomedical engineering and nanotechnology, Dr. İnci was honored with this prestigious award for his pioneering contributions to early diagnosis and personalized approaches to[Read More…]
Andreas Treske, Chair of the Department of Communication and Design, has released a new book titled “Heaven’s Delight: On the Pleasures of Audiovisual Practices.” The book is published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. Like a piece of Turkish delight—soft and unassuming at first, but unexpectedly intense—the book explores the[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Luca Zavagno of the Department of History and Archaeology has published his fourth monograph, “The Insular Worlds of Byzantium, ca. 550–ca. 900.” The book offers a comparative study of major islands and archipelagoes in the Byzantine Mediterranean—such as Cyprus, Crete, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics—during a time of political fragmentation and shifting cultural[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. Sam Hirst of the Department of International Relations has been awarded the prestigious Marshall Shulman Book Prize by the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for his book “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939” (Oxford University Press, 2024). The prize recognizes[Read More…]
A new book by Assoc. Prof. Bilin Neyaptı of the Department of Economics has been released: “Understanding Fiscal Decentralization,” published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book provides a comprehensive overview of fiscal decentralization (FD), outlining how it interacts with domestic structures and institutions. It reviews both theoretical and empirical literature relating to macroprudential institutions and[Read More…]
The results of the TÜBİTAK 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program have been announced. A total of 17 researchers from Bilkent University have been awarded funding under the program. According to the results of the 2025 First Call Period, Bilkent University researchers achieved an impressive 55% success rate.[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Efe Tokdemir, faculty member in the Department of International Relations, received the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conflict Processes Section Best Paper Award for his article titled “Unique Offerings: Ideological Competition and Rebel Governance.” Founded in 1903, APSA is a leading professional organization for political scientists, with over[Read More…]
Elvan Serin, instructor in the Department of Fine Arts, was selected to participate in the Concours Jeune Céramique Européenne—Young European Ceramics Competition Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie 2025, an international group exhibition held in France in March 2025. Among the two awards presented—one by jury decision and the other by public vote—Serin received the[Read More…]
