Group Leader
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Umut ADEM
Izmir Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Izmir,Turkey
E-mail: umutadem[at]iyte.edu.tr
Office: Faculty of Engineering, Building D, 1st floor, room 71
Tel: +90 232 750 7609
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Current Staff & Students
Res. Asst. Dr. Merve KARAKAYA
B.Sc. : Department of Physics, Dokuz Eylul University (2010)
M.Sc. : Department of Physics, Izmir Institute of Technology (2015)
Ph.D. : Materials Science and Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology (2022)
E-mail: mervegunnar[at]iyte.edu.tr
Ph.D. Thesis: Lead-free ferroelectric ceramics for energy storage and electrocaloric cooling applications, December 2022
Res. Asst. Oğuz AKKAŞOĞLU (Ph.D. Candidate)
B.Sc. : Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (2021)
M.Sc. : Materials Science and Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology (2023)
E-mail: oguzakkasoglu[at]iyte.edu.tr
Oğuz finished his Master’s thesis research in our lab and worked on electrocaloric properties of Zr-substituted BT-NBT solid solutions. For his PhD thesis, he works on the energy storage properties of ferroelectric ceramics.
Res. Asst. Utku HATİPOĞLU (Ph.D. Candidate)
B.Sc. : Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Istanbul University (2021)
M.Sc. : Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Yıldız Technical University (2023)
E-mail: utkuhatipoglu[at]iyte.edu.tr
Güleda PALALI (M.Sc. Candidate)
B.Sc. : Materials Science and Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology (2025)
E-mail: guledapalali[at]iyte.edu.tr
ALUMNI & VISITORS
Ceren Tengizdeniz, MSc Thesis, Piezocatalytic and Piezoelectric Properties of PVDF and its copolymer/terpolymer films, July 2023
Keriman Şanlı, MSc Thesis, BaTiO3 based ferroelectric materials for electrocaloric cooling applications, December 2018
Tuğçe Demirtay, MSc Thesis, Determination of the electrocaloric properties of the ferroelectric (1-x)BaTiO3-Bi(Li1/3Ti2/3 (0≤x≤0.2) system, December 2018
İrem Gürbüz, Visiting MSc Student, Summer 2021.
Arif Kurnia, Visiting PhD Student, October 2018- February 2019, Universitas Andalas, Indonesia
Prof. Nandang Mufti, Visiting Prof., October 2018, State University of Malang, Indonesia