Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Selim Hanay of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and UNAM has received a European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant. ERC Proof of Concept funding is made available only to those who already have an ERC award, to establish proof of concept of an idea generated in[Read More…]
Research
Healthcare Award Granted to UNAM
Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) received first prize for the Doktorclub Healthcare Initiative of the Year in the category of R&D/Innovation Implementation. The award was granted to Asst. Prof. Fatih İnci’s project “Ultra-Sensitive and Portable Cancer Early Diagnosis Chips.” This year saw the sixth iteration of the Doktorclub[Read More…]
Ece Göztepe Elected to Science Academy
Prof. Ece Göztepe, Dean of the Faculty of Law, was elected a regular member of the Science Academy, Turkey, at the Academy’s general assembly in December 2022. She is one of the five members of the Science Academy with a law background.
Kemal Yıldız Receives TÜBİTAK Incentive Award
Asst. Prof. Kemal Yıldız of the Department of Economics has been recognized by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). Dr. Yıldız received a 2022 TÜBİTAK Incentive Award for his outstanding work in the field of economic theory in the areas of game theory and mechanism design, boundedly[Read More…]
Recent Publication by Ece Göztepe
Prof. Ece Göztepe’s new co-authored book, “The Constitutional Court of Turkey: Between Legal and Political Reasoning,” has been published by Nomos Verlag in Germany. As described in the publisher’s website, the 721-page volume is “an interdisciplinary study [that] portrays the Constitutional Court of Turkey, which has asserted itself for 60[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. Fatih İnci Named Scientist of the Year
Asst. Prof. Fatih İnci has received the Scientist of the Year award from the Science Heroes Association. This award is given to scientists who contribute to the fields of basic sciences and engineering at an international level and lead the way in increasing the visibility and development of these fields[Read More…]
EU Horizon Approves Halt-Ronin Grant
Bilkent University is a beneficiary of the Halt-RONIN grant, an EU Horizon project funded with over 6 million euros. Fifteen European institutions and three UK partners participate in this project, which is coordinated by Prof. Javier Cubero (Complutense University of Madrid). The project is based on the identification of biomarkers[Read More…]
Hüseyin Can Aksoy Named One of Turkey’s “Ten Outstanding Young Persons”
Asst. Prof. Hüseyin Can Aksoy of the Faculty of Law has been named this year’s Outstanding Young Person in the field of “Politics, Law and Public Administration.” The award is from the Turkish branch of Junior Chamber International (JCI), an international non-profit organization with more than 200,000 members in over[Read More…]
Book on Migration Law Published
“European and International Migration Law,” edited by Asst. Prof. Gülüm Özçelik (LAW) and PhD student Elçin Aktan (LAW), has been published by Yetkin Publishing. The book, which Dr. Özçelik worked on between 2019 and 2022, is an outcome of her Jean Monnet Module on European and International Migration Law. It[Read More…]
Bilkent Ranked Most Successful Turkish Research Institution in Horizon Europe
Bilkent University has ranked first in the “Most Successful Turkish Research Institutions” list, based on the amount of funding it has received from Horizon Europe projects. As of today, Bilkent University has signed contracts with ten Horizon Europe projects with a budget of 7.45 million EUR. Bilkent coordinates eight of[Read More…]