Faculty in Numbers

• Salim Çıracı (1994) – Physics
• Cemal Yalabık (1997) – Physics
• Turgay Dalkara (2000) – Medicine/Neuroscience
• Ekmel Özbay (2001) – Physics
• Bilal Tanatar (2001) – Physics
• Hasan Tayfun Özçelik (2009) – Biology
• Hilmi Volkan Demir (2012) – Physics
• Mehmet Öztürk (1995) – Biology

• Ömer Dağ, Chemistry
• Oğuz Gülseren, Physics
• Metin Gürses, Physics
• Fatih Ömer İlday, Physics
• Şefik Süzer, Chemistry
• Bilal Tanatar, Physics
• Ergün Yalçın, Mathematics
• Engin Umut Akkaya, Chemistry
• Turgay Dalkara, Medicine
• İhsan Gürsel, Biology
• Mehmet Öztürk, Biology

• Hilmi Volkan Demir (2020) – Engineering Sciences
• Fatih Ömer İlday (2017) – Physics
• Oğuz Gülseren (2016) – Physics
• Tayfun Özçelik (2012) – Biology
• Engin Umut Akkaya (2009) – Chemistry
• Metin Gürses (2008) – Physics
• Ekmel Özbay (2006) – Physics
• Şefik Süzer (1990) – Chemistry
• Hasan Erten (1988) – Chemistry
• Salim Çıracı (1985) – Physics

• Oğuz Gülseren (2003) – Physics
• Mehmet Öztürk (1996) – Biology

• Bilge Baytekin (2020) – Chemistry
• Ferdi Karadaş (2020) – Chemistry
• Emrah Özensoy (2014) – Chemistry
• Coşkun Kocabaş (2013) – Physics
• Mustafa Özgür Güler (2013) – Chemistry
• Fatih Ömer İlday (2011) – Physics
• Hilmi Volkan Demir (2009) – Physics
• Mehmet Özgür Oktel (2009) – Physics
• Ceyhun Bulutay (2007) – Physics
• Ergün Yalçın (2007) – Mathematics
• Mehmet Bayındır (2006) – Physics
• Ömer Dağ (2001) – Chemistry
• Engin Umut Akkaya (1999) – Chemistry
• Ekmel Özbay (1997) – Physics
• Zafer Gedik (1996) – Physics
• Tayfun Özçelik (1996) – Biology
• Bilal Tanatar (1993) – Physics
• Cemal Yalabık (1988) – Physics
• Metin Gürses (1984) – Physics
• Şefik Süzer (1981) – Chemistry
• İbrahim Dibağ (1978) – Mathematics

• Emre Ozan Polat (2025) – Physics
• Naci Saldı (2025) – Mathematics
• Halil İbrahim Okur (2023) – Chemistry
• Yunus Emre Türkmen (2022) – Chemistry
• Onur Tokel (2019) – Physics
• Burak Ülgüt (2019) – Chemistry
• Bilge Baytekin (2017) – Chemistry
• Onur Çizmecioğlu (2017) – Biology
• Ferdi Karadaş (2017) – Chemistry
• Serkan İsmail Göktuna (2016) – Biology
• Çağlar Çekiç (2015) – Biology
• Özgür Şahin (2014) – Biology
• Giovanni Volpe (2014) – Physics
• Özgün Ünlü (2013) – Mathematics
• Ebru Erbay (2012) – Biology
• Mustafa Özgür Güler (2011) – Chemistry
• Coşkun Kocabaş (2011) – Physics
• Mehmet Bayındır (2007) – Physics
• Hilmi Volkan Demir (2006) – Physics
• Fatih Ömer İlday (2006) – Physics
• Ergün Yalçın (2005) – Mathematics
• Mehmet Özgür Oktel (2005) – Physics
• Ömer Dağ (2002) – Chemistry
• Rengül Atalay (2001) – Biology

• Yaghoub Heydarzade (2025) – Mathematics
• Cihan Okay (2024) – Mathematics
• Deniz Yılmaz (2023) – Mathematics
• Serkan Belkaya (2021) – Biology
• Halil İbrahim Okur (2021) – Chemistry
• Onur Çizmecioğlu (2020) – Biology
• Burak Ülgüt (2020) – Chemistry
• Yunus Emre Türkmen (2019) – Chemistry
• Ferdi Karadaş (2018) – Chemistry
• Onur Tokel (2018) – Physics
• Coşkun Kocabaş (2017) – Physics
• Serkan İsmail Göktuna (2017) – Biology
• Bilge Baytekin (2016) – Chemistry
• Emrah Özensoy (2016) – Chemistry
• Özgür Şahin (2014) – Biology

• Emrah Özensoy (2022) – Chemistry
• Hamza Yeşilyurt (2014) – Mathematics
• Turgay Kaptanoğlu (2007) – Mathematics
• Ali Sinan Sertöz (2005) – Mathematics
• Ekmel Özbay (1998) – Physics
• Metin Gürses (1986) – Mathematics
• Mefharet Kocatepe (1985) – Mathematics
• İbrahim Dibağ (1983) – Chemistry
• Salim Çıracı (1978) – Physics

• Ekmel Özbay (2024) – Physics
• Bilal Tanatar (2010) – Physics
• Engin Umut Akkaya (2005) – Chemistry

• Emre Ozan Polat (2024) – Physics
• Naci Saldı (2024) – Mathematics
• Türker Özsarı (2021) – Mathematics
• Ferdi Karadaş (2020) – Chemistry
• Burak Ülgüt (2020) – Chemistry
• Onur Tokel (2019) – Physics
• Bilge Baytekin (2018) – Chemistry
• Özgür Şahin (2016) – Biology
• Coşkun Kocabaş (2012) – Physics
• Emrah Özensoy (2012) – Chemistry
• Mustafa Özgür Güler (2011) – Chemistry
• Hilmi Volkan Demir (2008) – Physics
• Mehmet Özgür Oktel (2008) – Physics
• Zafer Gedik (2001) – Physics
• Ekmel Özbay (1995) – Physics
• Engin Umut Akkaya (1995) – Chemistry

• Klaus von Klitzing, Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate (2002)
• Aziz Sancar, Professor of Biochemistry and Nobel Laureate (2006)
• Jeffrey M. Friedman, Professor of Molecular Biology and Lasker Awardee (2013)
• Walter Kohn, Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate (1998)

• Mete Atatüre – Professor of Physics at University of Cambridge (2024)
• Thors Hans Hansson – University of Stockholm – Chair, Nobel Physics Committee – Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2023)
• Evan E. Eichler – University of Washington – National Academy of Sciences (2014)
• Bruce Alberts – University of California, San Francisco – President, National Academy of Sciences (2013)
• Jeffrey M. Friedman – Rockefeller University – Lasker Awardee – National Academy of Sciences & Royal Society (2013)
• Mary-Claire King – University of Washington – Lasker Awardee – National Academy of Sciences – President, American Society of Human Genetics (2013)
• Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil – Harvard University (2012)
• Peter Walter – UCSF – Lasker Awardee – National Academy of Sciences – President, American Society for Cell Biology (2012)
• James D. Watson – CSHL – Nobel Laureate – National Academy of Sciences & Royal Society – Director, Human Genome Project (2011)
• Sir Tim Hunt – Cancer Research UK London Research Institute – Nobel Laureate – National Academy of Sciences & Royal Society (2010)
• Uta Francke – Stanford University – National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine – President of the International Federation of Human Genetics Societies – President, American Society of Human Genetics (2000)
• Joe D. Wray – Columbia University – renowned physician (1990)
• Louis K. Diamond – Children’s Hospital in Boston – father of pediatric hematology (1989)

• Ongoing R&D Projects as of Februrary 2026 (where Faculty of Science Members are PIs)92
• National R&D Projects34
• International R&D Projects12
• EMBO-Funded R&D Projects1
• ERC-Funded Projects0
• EU-Horizon-Funded Projects3
• Industry-Collaborative Projects3
• TÜBİTAK-Funded Projects34
• Other National/International Projects5

• Total R&D Projects since 2014 (where Faculty of Science Members are PIs)507
• National R&D Projects196
• International R&D Projects49
• EMBO-Funded R&D Projects5
• ERC-Funded Projects4
• EU-Horizon-Funded Projects12
• Industry-Collaborative Projects28
• TÜBİTAK-Funded Projects199
• Other National/International Projects14

Number of Current Students (As of February 2026)

Total Number of Graduate Students