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About Me

Esat received his Ph.D. in 2015 from CREOL, the College of Optics & Photonics, where he studied photon statistics in disordered lattices under the supervision of Prof. Bahaa Saleh. Following his Ph.D., he worked on diffraction-free space-time light sheets and coherence phenomena in Prof. Ayman Abouraddy's lab at CREOL. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. David Weld's lab at the Department of Physics at University of California Santa Barbara. His current research interests include Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, Aug. 2010 -- Dec. 2015
    University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    • Dissertation topic: "Photon statistics in disordered lattices''

    • Advisors: Dr. Bahaa E. A. Saleh
       

  • Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Physics, Sep. 2007 -- July 2010
    Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

    • Research subject: "Photonics crystals and omni-directional photonic bandgap devices"

    • Advisor: Prof. Mehmet Bayindir
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  • Bachelor of Science, Physics, Sep. 2003 -- June 2007
    Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Honors & Awards

  • IPC--IEEE Photonics Conference 2017 Best Student & Young Scholar Poster Award
     

  • The IEEE Photonics Society Student & Young Scholar Travel Grant awarded for IPC 2017
     

  • Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant awarded for Frontiers in Optics/OSA Annual Meeting (2015)
     

  • ASACAD--The Association for Academic Advancement Outstanding Research Award (2015)
     

  • University of Central Florida CREOL Research Fellowship awarded for graduate study (2010 - 2015)
     

  • The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - BIDEB Scholarship (2008 - 2010)

    • Based on merit and good academic standing, continuation of BAYG Scholarship
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  • Bilkent University Board of Trustees Fellowship awarded for graduate study (2007 - 2010)
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  • The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - BAYG Scholarship (2004 - 2007)

    • Based on merit in a nation-wide written exam, sole winner from Bilkent Physics 2007 class
       

  • Turkish Physical Society Scholarship (2004 - 2006)
     

  • Bilkent University Board of Trustees Fellowship awarded for undergraduate study (2003 - 2007)

    • Based on merit in the national university placement exam, ranked in top 0.1%
       

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