Hilmi Volkan Demir is a Turkish scientist, best known for his works on White Light Generation.

Biography

Hilmi Volkan Demir was born on July 4, 1976 in Kars, Turkey. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1998, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He received his Docent title (assoc. prof.) in optics and photonics from the Turkish Council of Higher Education in 2007. Since September 2004, he has been working as a faculty member at Bilkent University, where he holds joint appointments at the Department of Physics and at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is the Associate Director of Nanotechnology Research Center. He also serves as a faculty member of the Advanced Research Laboratory and the Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology.

Research

At Bilkent, he is the principal investigator of the Devices and Sensors Research Group. His current research interests and projects include the development and demonstration of innovative hybrid nanophotonic devices, nanocrystal, metal nanoparticle and nanowire embedded nanodevices, high-performance RF and optoelectronic sensors, III-nitride optoelectronic devices, white LEDs, and photovoltaic devices. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles in major scientific journals and conferences, presented more than 100 invited lectures, seminars, and conference talks around the world, and has more than 10 patents at various stages of the process.

Awards

Dr. Demir is one of the winners of 2007 ESF

ESF

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-EURYI (European Science Foundation European Young Investigator Award). He is also the recipient of 2008 Prof. M. N. Parlar Young Scientist Award, 2006 TUBA-GEBIP (Turkish National Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Award), and 2005 European Union Marie Curie Fellowship Award. He is a member of the professional societies of OSA

Osa

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, LEOS, IEEE, and SPIE and the alumni associations of Stanford University, Bilkent University

Bilkent University

İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, commonly referred to as Bilkent University or Bilkent, is the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey with the fundamental aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research...

, and Ankara Science High School.

External links

• Personal Page
• Devices and Sensors Research Group at Bilkent University