Dr.
Sefaattin Tongay is currently a tenure-track professor in the School
for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State
University. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of
Florida in 2010 working with Prof. Dr. Arthur F. Hebard, M.Sc degree
at Bilkent University in 2005 with Prof. Dr. S. Ciraci, and
bachelor’s degree at Ege University in 2002. He conducted
postdoctoral research with Prof. Dr. Junqiao Wu at UC, Berkeley.
He has
published +100 SCI-indexed research articles in prestigious
journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature
Chemistry, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, and Physical
Review Letters.
He
currently has h-index of 32, and holds 2 key patents on 2D
materials. His work received wide media coverage from Nature
publications, Scientific American, MIT news, Science Daily,
Phys.org, IOP nanotechweb, Gizmag, and various other media
sources. He is the winner of prestigious 2016 NSF Early Career
Award, Tom Scott Memorial Award, 2016 Top Teaching Award at
Arizona State University, Summa Cum Laude degree from
undergraduate education, and various other awards including travel
grant awards, graduate scholarship awards, and presidential
scholarship awards. Prof. Tongay is an editorial member of IOP
Applied Physics Review (impact factor 14) and more recently Nature
Publishing Journal Nature 2D Materials and Applications. He has
been awarded various research grants by National Science
Foundation Division of Materials Research (DMR), Civil, Mechanical
and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) programs, as well as two (2)
different private companies. He has contributed to
multiple grant proposals for Office of Naval Research (ONR),
National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), and
DARPA between 2007 and 2014.
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