Burak Guzelturk is a Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory.

Before joining Argonne, Burak 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 and revealed polaron-induced lattice deformations in halide perovskites. He led the development of time-resolved atomic pair distribution function analysis, and discovered local lattice distortions associated with surface trapping in semiconductor quantum dots. He also spearheaded THz emission spectroscopy to quantify sub-picosecond charge separation processes in energy materials, 2D materials and ferroelectrics. 


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 excitonic properties of colloidal nanocrystals. He improved the performance and functionalities of semiconductor nanocrystal optoelectronic devices by controlling exciton and multiexciton interactions at the nanoscale. He pioneered colloidal CdSe nanoplatelet lasers with record-high modal gain coefficients, and developed exciton-transfer controlled nanocrystal assemblies for optoelectronic applications. During his Ph.D., Burak 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 75 journal articles and is a co-inventor on 8 international patents. His scientific contributions have received over 4,600 citations, with an h-index of 38 (Google Scholar). 

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