Mehmet Ertugrul

Short Biography

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ertugrul was born in Trabzon, Turkey, in 1966. He received the B.Sc. degree from the Department of Physics, in 1986, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, 1996 to 2001, and 2001—2002, he was, respectively, an Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor, and a Full Professor at the Department of Physics, Ataturk University, where he has been a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering since 2003. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 papers published in international journals and also over 200 publications in national and international conference proceedings. His current research interests include carbon nanostructures and composites, energy storage systems employing 2D structures such as graphene, dichalcogenides and MXenes, biomedical and gas sensors, ultraconducting and superconducting cables, covetics, radar absorber materials, superconducting and semiconducting devices. He worked as a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory between 2001-2003, 2005-2006, and 2008-2009. He has been working as a visiting profffessor at University Putra Malaysia (UPM) since 2019. Prof. Ertugrul has received several awards such as Encouragement award by The Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), The Successful Young Scientists Award by the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and the best project award. He was also awarded with NATO-C scholarship in 2001 and TUBITAK scholarship in 2009. He has served as a supervisor to many masters and PhD students. He has worked for several committees such as the Higher Education Council, The Scientific and Research Council, The Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry of Turkey.