EPFL Reconfigurable Robotics Lab Director Prof. Jamie Paik's conference titled "Soft robots for invisible intuitive interactions" will be held on 10 September 2019 at Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum.

You can watch Jamie Paik's TED Talk on "Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves" from below link. 

We kindly request you to register due to limited seating capacity.  

S. Arzu Wasti, Faculty Member of the School of Management, has been awarded by TÜBİTAK with the “Science Award” within the scope of TÜBİTAK Science, Service and Incentive Awards, which are acknowledged as Turkey’s most reputable science awards.

S. Arzu Wasti was awarded the “Science Award” with her “outstanding international studies on commitment, trust and workplace aggression in the field of organizational behavior / psychology”. In 2019, only four scientists were deemed worthy of the TÜBİTAK Science Award.

TÜBİTAK Science Award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science at international level in our country. The recipients of the Science Award are given research support with a certain amount determined by the Board of Directors to be used in national research activities. Additionally, having this valuable award, project application limits will not be applied to Prof. Dr. S. Arzu Wasti based on new rules in project limitations of TÜBİTAK.

Arzu Wasti said, "On this occasion, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my family, who set an example for me, to my dissertation Professor Harry Triandis, who encouraged me, to our president Yusuf Leblebici, who nominated me, and to Sabancı University for supporting me in every way. "

TÜBİTAK “Science, Special, Service and Incentive Awards” will be delivered to the winners at a ceremony with the participation of the President.

Who is Prof. Dr. S. Arzu Wasti?

After completing her undergraduate and MBA studies at Middle East Technical University, she completed her master's degree in Human Resources Management at Purdue University (USA) and her doctorate degree at the University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign (USA). Her research interests are organizational behavior and cultural psychology. Prof. S. Arzu Wasti has published in leading journals as well as reputable handbooks in her field on the impact of culture on work life.

Materials science and Nano Engineering faculty member Emre Erdem has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief position in newly established journal: Experimental Results.

The journal will be published by Cambridge University Press. Emre Erdem will manage the Chemistry section of this open access Journal. His responsibilities as Editor-in-Chief are: Act as the journal’s figureheads and advocate publicly for the title: promoting the journal to colleagues and participants at key events. ii) Direct the scientific quality of Experimental Results for their subject: advising on the journal’s direction as necessary e.g. Reviewing and Statistical Editor Appointments; Aims & Scope. iii) To make final decisions on papers where Reviewing Editor is unable to, and to arbitrate problems as a consequence of the submission and peer review process.  

Experimental Results is an innovative new open access journal from Cambridge University Press that provides researchers with a venue to publish all experimental findings. Publication of valid scientific results as short papers, regardless of their outcome, enables the journal to fundamentally address the growing issues of reproducibility and duplication in the scientific community.

The journal is now open for submissions, find out more at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/experimental-results/information/editorial-board

Ten projects developed by Sabancı University were chosen to receive support from the TÜBİTAK Priority Areas R&D Project Support Program (1003). This makes Sabancı the university that received support for the highest number of projects in the June 2018 call of the TÜBİTAK 1003 program.

56% of the projects submitted by Sabancı University faculty and researchers were granted support within the TÜBİTAK 1003 Program.

Supported projects have a total budget of nearly 15 million TL. The budget is expected to support 20 PhD candidates.

Vice President of Research and Development Mehmet Yıldız said: “Sabancı University's main strategy for research is to resolve select regional and global issues, and train people who will do so. Our research projects supported by the TÜBİTAK 1003 Priority Areas R&D Project Support Program serve this purpose. We aim for our university and research centers to create sustainable value through our high-quality, breakthrough research projects. We are proud of the efforts of our faculty members, researchers and students."

The objective of the TÜBİTAK 1003 Priority Areas R&D Project Support Program is to support domestic R&D projects within priority areas designated by the National Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy that observe the dynamics of their respective scientific or technological field and have traceable targets.

TÜBİTAK 1003 desteği alan Sabancı Üniversitesi projelerine ait bilgiler: 

Kısaltmalar:

IMC: Sabancı Üniversitesi Tümleştirilmiş Üretim Teknolojileri Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (TÜMER)

MDBF: Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi

SSBF: Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi

SUNUM: Sabancı Üniversitesi Nanoteknoloji Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi

Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) has released the fourth issue of IICEC Energy Market Newsletter. 

Please click to read IICEC Energy Market Newsletter. 

The Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) established with the founding sponsorship of Akbank held another seminar as part of its series with the most influential names in finance.

The speaker of the event was Pamir Gelenbe, a venture partner in Hummingbird Ventures who specifically focuses on digital currency and the blockchain technology. Gelenbe's lecture at the Sabancı Center on Thursday, July 24 was titled “The Impact of the Blockchain Technology on the Internet, Financial Services and Society”.

Pamir Gelenbe said that the internet emerged as a decentralized computer network and changed the way we interacted with money, adding that the internet was still under the control of a few large corporations and the institutions controlling money stayed the same. Gelenbe said that computer scientists had been trying to eliminate intermediaries and build truly decentralized networks since the 1980s, and the first largely working solution to this problem was the Bitcoin blockchain suggested in 2008. Gelenbe noted that decentralized blockchains such as Ethereum also had computational capabilities, concluding that such applications would lead to the finance system becoming more decentralized in the future. 

The Functional Surfaces and Interfaces for Nano diagnostics Workshop by Sabancı University Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces (EFSUN) was held at Sabanci University Cinema Hall on the 19th June.  

The workshop was specifically designed for graduate students, post-docs, researchers, and  experts from a broad range of industries, who are interested in Functional Surfaces and Interfaces and their applications. Prof. Zehra Sayers, Former President of Sabancı University and Prof. Fazilet Vardar, Director of Sabancı University Nanotechnology and Applications Center (SUNUM) dellivered the opening speeches.

Fazilet Vardar

The invited speakers, Prof. Hikmet Akkız and Prof. Emre Erdem gave inspirational talks.  

Best Paper Award

In addition, there were eight high quality interdisciplinary finalist presentations in the framework of ‘Best Paper Award Competition’ to recognize scientific papers of outstanding young scientists on Functional Surfaces and Interfaces from different disciplines. 

The winners of the Best Paper Competition was determined by an interdisciplinary evaluation commitee consisting of  jury members from different universities/institutions, who are well known and active scientists in the field:

1-Dr. Meltem Sezen, SUNUM

2-Dr. Funda Yağcı Acar, Koç University

3-Dr. Filiz Kuralay, Hacettepe University

4-Dr. Koray Balcıoğlu, TÜBİTAK MAM

The jury members carefully evaluated each article and presentation. Below are the winners of the Best Paper Award:

Winner-Yiğit Akkuş (Atomic Scale Interfacial Transport at an Extended Evaporating Meniscus)

1.Runner Up - Abdolali Khalili Sadaghiani (Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of Inclined pHEMA-Coated Surfaces)

2.Runner Up - Müge Yücel (Hand-Held Volatilome Analyzer Based on Elastically Deformable Nanofibers)

People's Choice Award - Omid Mohammad Moradi (Strong Composition Dependence of Resistive Switching in Ba1-xSrxTiO3 Thin Films on Semiconducting Substrates and its Thermodynamic Analysis)

Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Member Kürşat Şendur presented his projects on areospace technologies supported by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) at the NASA Langley Research Center.

Controlling heat increase in equipment and materials is a great challenge in aerospace applications. Radiant heat transfer plays a large part in controlling heat increase in such environments. Kürşat Şendur was invited to the NASA Langley Research Center to present his research on breakthrough aerospace technologies and materials that control radiant heat transfer to a board of scientists.

AFOSR, the world's leading institute on aerospace research, supports 200 academic institutions working in this area. Sabancı University has been conducting two projects with AFOSR support since 2016, and the technologies have potential applications in aerospace as well as energy, information technologies, and infrared solutions.

Sabancı University aims to establish a joint platform with NASA for aerospace research. Kürşat Şendur said, “We discussed possible cooperative efforts between Sabancı University and NASA that are similar in structure to the ongoing Sabancı University and AFOSR joint projects."

Sabancı University signed a cooperation protocol with National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), one of the leading universities in Taiwan. The protocol includes student and faculty exchange, double major programs, joint research activities, academic material and knowledge exchange, and short-term special academic programs.

Edward Y. Chang, Yusuf Leblebici 

At the signing ceremony hosted by Sabancı University, President Yusuf Leblebici noted that Taiwan ranks among the top three countries in microelectronics and semiconductor technologies in the world. He added that NCTU is Taiwan's top university in these areas. Yusuf Leblebici said that Sabancı University and NCTU aim to contribute to developments in this field in a way that the students of both institutions could benefit and intend to expand the cooperation to cover different fields.

Efforts are underway to establish a dual PhD diploma program in Electronics Engineering between Sabancı University and NCTU. The program will reinforce Sabancı University's leadership position in R&D and scientific studies in microelectronics, semiconductor and integrated circuit design and production, while playing a significant part in training qualified human resources in areas that are continuously gaining in importance.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS) members Özgür Gürbüz Ünlüyurt and İbrahim Tekin won the 2018 Elginkan Foundation Technology Award.  

Özgür Gürbüz Ünlüyurt and İbrahim Tekin received their awards at the ceremony held on June 24, 2019 with their project "Full Duplex Radio Design, Implementation and Full Duplex Medium Access Control".

The novel dual-antenna full duplex radio developed in the project has up to 100 dB of self-interference cancellation, enabling wireless transmission at twice the speed of conventional radios for low and medium power levels, short and medium ranges, and providing up to 10 times higher throughput for wireless networks using the novel S-CW FD protocol.