Background
Demir, Hilmi Volkan was born on July 4, 1976 in Kagizman, Turkey. Son of Salih and Rahsan Demir.
physicist scientist electrical engineer
Demir, Hilmi Volkan was born on July 4, 1976 in Kagizman, Turkey. Son of Salih and Rahsan Demir.
Degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1998, and his Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California, in 2000 and 2004, respectively.
He received his Bachelor of Science He received his Docent title (Association Professor) 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.
In August 2009, he is assigned as Nanyang Associate Professor jointly at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Microelectronics Division) and the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Physics and Applied Physics Division) at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 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 Optoelectronics 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.
He has an overall h-index of 34 and i10-index of 100, as per Google Scholar.
He also serves as a faculty member of the Advanced Research Laboratory and the Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology. He is a member of the professional societies such as the Optical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Photonics Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and International Society for Optical Engineering and the alumni associations of Stanford University, Bilkent University, and Ankara Science High School.
Married Cigdem Gunduz Demir, March 11, 2004.