06/04/2026
The guest for the Nano Open Webinar, which will be held in a hybrid format in the SUNUM Foyer on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, from 11:00 to 12:00, will be Prof. Dr. Bilge Demirköz from Middle East Technical University.
Prof. Dr. Bilge Demirköz will speak on the topics of space and artificial intelligence.
To register for the hybrid event taking place on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. in the SUNUM Foyer, please visit:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/019d1a6496d77d37a9361f4f5b1c8417
About Prof. Dr. Bilge Demirköz
After graduating from Robert College, Prof. Dr. Bilge Demirköz studied physics at MIT with minors in mathematics and music. She completed her master’s degree at MIT in 2001 while working on the construction of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment, which is currently aboard the International Space Station. For her Ph.D., she worked on the ATLAS experiment at CERN while at the University of Oxford and was subsequently selected as a CERN Fellow, working on behalf of CERN for two years. After short post-docs at the University of Cambridge and the IFAE at the University of Barcelona, she returned to Türkiye in 2011 and began working at METU.
Bilge Demirköz’s research group consists of 4 engineers, 3 technicians, 5 doctoral students, 5 master’s students, numerous undergraduate students, and 2 administrative specialists. Demirköz, who served on the TÜBİTAK Science Council for 3 years and as the CERN representative for the Middle East and Türkiye for 2 years, received the UNESCO-L’Oréal International Rising Talent Award at a ceremony in Paris in 2017 and was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019. As the Manager of the Middle East Technical University (METU) Space and Accelerator Technologies Application and Research Center (IVME-R), Demirköz and his team also received the Elginkan Foundation Technology Development Award, and she became an Eisenhower Fellow in 2024. This year, Demirköz has been selected as a member of the newly established Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence by the UN General Assembly.
