Prof. Pınar Bilgin, of the Departments of International Relations and Political Science and Public Administration, has released a new book coauthored with Karen Smith from the University of Leiden. “Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR,” was published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book asks what it means to think[Read More…]
Research
Dr. Ülgüt Joins Distinguished Advisory Board
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has launched a new journal dedicated to electrochemistry, ACS Electrochemistry. Assoc. Prof. Burak Ülgüt of the Department of Chemistry has been appointed as a member of the inaugural Editorial Advisory Board, joining distinguished electrochemists across the globe (https://pubs.acs.org/page/aeclc7/editors.html). According to Editor-in-Chief Prof. Patrick Unwin, the[Read More…]
Dr. Özçelik Awarded Jean Monnet Chair
Assoc. Prof. Gülüm Özçelik, Faculty of Law, has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair on the Legal Aspects of Migration Management in the European Union and in Türkiye. With its teaching, research and dissemination activities, the chair aims to promote academic discussion on the legal aspects of migration and international[Read More…]
Bilkent Team Achieves Unprecedented Nanostructuring Inside Silicon
A groundbreaking study published in “Nature Communications” unveils a method for laser nanofabrication directly within silicon, with significant implications for the fields of nanophotonics, silicon photonics and 3D electronic-photonic integrated systems. The research, led by Asst. Prof. Onur Tokel from the Department of Physics and UNAM – National Nanotechnology Research[Read More…]
2024 UIC Awards
Assoc. Prof. Efe Tokdemir and Post-doc researcher Firuze Simay Sezgin Namlı of the Department of International Relations received International Relations Council of Türkiye 2024 awards. Dr. Tokdemir is the recipient of the International Relations Council (UIC) Türkiye 2024 Young Scientist Incentive Award. The UIC Young Scientist Incentive Award is given[Read More…]
Türker Özsarı Receives 2023 Ikeda Research Award
Asst. Prof. Türker Özsarı of the Department of Mathematics received the 2023 Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda Research Award. This prestigious award is given to mathematicians under the age of 45 working in Turkey who have made noteworthy contributions to the field, with the aim of promoting high-quality research. It was established[Read More…]
IDEoPOP Project Receives Grant from Horizon Europe
Bilkent University is a beneficiary of “International Dimensions and Effects of Populism (IDEoPOP),” a HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01-01 project funded with over € 2.4 million. Thirteen partners participate in this project that is coordinated by Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany. Prof. Pınar Bilgin from the Department of International Relations and Political Science and Public[Read More…]
Major International Grant to Study the Molecular Basis of Obesity
Prof. Tayfun Özçelik, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, received an international grant to investigate the involvement of brown adipose tissue in the development of obesity. The grant of $7 million is funded by one of the largest international philanthropic[Read More…]
Tolga Çukur Named ISMRM Fellow
Prof. Tolga Çukur of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and director of UMRAM has been named a fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). Prof. Çukur was named for outstanding contributions to computational MRI techniques, including machine learning algorithms for robust image reconstruction, translation[Read More…]
International Studies Association Awards Dr. Özdamar for Recent Publication
“Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy,” a recent book coauthored by Assoc. Prof. Özgür Özdamar and Dr. Sercan Canbolat (IR’2014 MA graduate), was awarded the “Best Book in Foreign Policy Analysis” prize by the International Studies Association (ISA). Published by Cambridge University Press,[Read More…]