Background
Ekmel Özbay was born on March 25, 1966 in Ankara, Turkey.
Ekmel Özbay was born on March 25, 1966 in Ankara, Turkey.
He received his Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1989 and 1992.
He received his Bachelor of Surgery degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1987. From 1992-1993, Özbay worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University. His research in Stanford focused on high speed resonant tunneling and optoelectronic devices.
Between 1993 and 1995, he worked as a scientist in the Department of Energy"s Ames National Laboratory at Iowa State University in the area of photonic band gap materials.
He joined Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in the physics and electrical electronics engineering departments. His research areas include metamaterials, photonic crystals, Metalorganic chemical vapour deposition growth, fabrication and characterization of nanoelectronic and nanophotonic Gallium nitride/AlGaN devices, and high performance near-infrared semiconductor photodetectors and lasers.
Since 2002, he is a topical editor of the journal Optics Letters. He has published 210 journal articles and 235 international conference proceedings.
His publications have received more than 4500 citations according to the Web of Science.
Özbay holds 2 patents in the area of photonic crystals. His recent review article on plasmonics appeared as an invited review article in January 13th 2006 issue of Science.
He is currently acting as the national delegate for Turkey in the program committee of European Union-NMP (nanotechnologies, manufacturing and processes) which is in the process of preparing the workprogramme for European Union-FP7.
Besides the European Union projects, he is principal investigator on 12 national projects supported by various funding agencies. He has worked with various high-tech companies in United States of America, Europe and Turkey.
Currently, he is principal investigator and executive committee member of 3 European Union-FP projects: STREP project European Union-DALHM (Development and Analysis of Left Handed Materials), NoE-PHOREMOST (Nanophotonics to realize Molecular-Scale Technologies), and NoE-METAMORPHOSE (MetaMaterials Organized for radio, millimeter wave, and PHOtonic Superlattice Engineering).