Burak Guzelturk is a Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, working as a beamline scientist at the Advanced Photon Source. 

Before joining Argonne, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory. In his Postdoc, Burak worked in the group of Prof. Aaron Lindenberg and performed terahertz and ultrafast structural studies on broad range of energy and quantum materials. At Stanford, he also pioneered time-resolved X-ray diffuse scattering approach for resolving polaronic structural deformations in materials. Moreover, he spearheaded time-resolved atomic pair distribution function analysis to resolve lattice deformations in nanocrystals. 

Burak obtained his B.Sc. ('09), M.Sc. ('11) and Ph.D. ('16) all in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. During his graduate studies, Burak worked in the group of Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir and developed exciton-harvesting quantum dot hybrid systems and their optoelectronic devices. In his Ph.D., he pioneered nanoplatelet lasers showing exceptional performance levels among any other solution-processed laser media. Burak also got multiple patents with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology from his research stay in South Korea. These include mechanical energy harvesting textiles and polarized light-emitting layers for liquid-crystal displays.  

Burak has published more than 60 journal articles and has been co-inventor on 7 patents.  His scientific work has received more than 3600 citations, with an h-index of 34 according to Google Scholar. 

Burak is married to Dr. Fulya Ersoy and father of Leo Arda.


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