EDUCATION

Ph.D. Department of Organic Chemistry, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998.
Dissertation Title: “Synthesis of aminocyclopentitols from N-alkyl pyridinium salts: A photochemical approach”, written in French. Adviser: Prof. Ulrich Burger.

M.S. Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1994.
Dissertation Title: “Polymerization of Glyoxal with terephthalaldehyde” Adviser: Prof. Selim Küsefoglu.

B.S. Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1992.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2007 - Present  Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey.

2004 - 2007      Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey.

2002 - 2004      Staff Organic Chemist, General Electric Company, Global Research Center, Polymer and Specialty Chemicals Technology, Value Added Polymers and Applied Polymers Laboratory, Niskayuna, New York, USA.

2000 - 2002     Post-doctoral Fellow, Weatherable Polymers Laboratory, GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York,  USA.

1999 - 2000     Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Polymers and High Performance Materials, University of Southern Mississippi, MS, USA. Adviser: L. J. Mathias.

1994 - 1998     Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

1992 - 1994     Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.