Burak Guzelturk is a Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory.

Before joining Argonne, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where he worked with Prof. Aaron Lindenberg. During his postdoc, Burak conducted ultrafast studies using short-pulse terahertz, electron, and X-ray probes to investigate the coupled dynamics of electrons and ions in energy and quantum materials. He pioneered time-resolved X-ray diffuse scattering, which revealed polaron-induced lattice deformations in real time, and led the development of time-resolved atomic pair distribution function analysis, enabling insights into local lattice distortions in materials. 


Burak earned his B.Sc. (2009), M.Sc. (2011), and Ph.D. (2016) degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. His doctoral research, under the supervision of Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir, focused on optoelectronic properties of colloidal nanocrystals. He engineered semiconductor nanocrystals and their devices to improve performance in light-emitting devices and photodetectors. He pioneered colloidal CdSe nanoplatelet lasers with record-high modal gain coefficients, and developed exciton injection schemes for QLEDs. During his Ph.D., he conducted research stays at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (South Korea), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (Germany).

To date, Burak has published more than 70 journal articles and is a co-inventor on 8 international patents. His scientific contributions have received over 4,500 citations, with an h-index of 37 (Google Scholar). 

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