Salim Ciraci#
| Membership Number: | 3373 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~ciraci |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Founding Director of UNAM - National Nanotechnology Research Center and Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University
- 2006 - present Founding Chairperson of the Graduate Program on Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University
- 1994 - present Founding Director of BICAS - Bilkent International Center for Advanced Studies, Bilkent University
- 2000 - 2001 Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 1991 - 1995 Founding Dean of Faculty of Science of Bilkent University.
- 1986 - 1991 Founding Chairman of the Department of Physics and Professor of Physics of Bilkent University.
- 1982 - 1983 Kernforschungsanlage, Juelich/Germany
- 1980 - 1985 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University
- 1974 - 1977 IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, USA. Later as associate until 1990
- 1969 - 1974 Stanford University, Graduate Student, Research Assistant, Post Doc.
Fields of Scholarship
- Surface-interface physics
- Electronic structure of metals and semiconductors
- Condensed systems of lower dimensionality-quantum size effect
- Semiconductor heterostructures
- Theory of scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy
- Quantized electric and heat conductance
- Nanoscience: carbon nanotubes, graphene and graphene derivatives
- Nanotribology-superlow friction
- New materials with honeycomb structures: Silicene, Germanene and MX2
- Energy: high capacity hydrogen storage-supercapacitors
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Full Member, Academy of Science of Turkey (TUBA)
- 1993 Outstanding Achievement Awards of Bilkent University Foundation
- 1985 Science Prize of Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
- 1978 Sedat Simavi Foundation Science Award
