Projects/Fellowships
1.) A proof of concept grant worth 63,000 AUD from Commercial Development and Industrial Partnership, University of Sydney [Nov 20201 to Aug 2020] [PI].
2.) Member of team for project “Gases and Analytes with TErahertz Sensors” (GATES) funded by NATO under Science for Peace and Security Programme, 300,000 Euro with a 151,000 share for Sydney University with 4 participants (including me) at Sydney University (Dec-2020 to Dec-2023).
3.) Winner of “The University of Sydney 2018 Fellowship” (worth of AUD ~400,000) and lifetime member of The Sydney Society of Fellows (2018-2021) [PI].
4.) Core Research Facilities User Access Scheme worth of 3,500 AUD from University of Sydney (2019-2020).
5.) Science and Industry Endowment Fund-Australian Academy of Sciences- Lindau Fellowship worth of 5,000 AUD to attend 69th Lindau Nobel Meeting (2019).
6.) Proof of Concept grant of 500,000 DKK from Technical University of Denmark for starting a long wave Mid-IR Supercontinuum Company (2018). (Co-PI:1/4th share).
7.) H. C. Ørsted Fund worth of 200,000 DKK for leading project fibercomm@2um funded by DTU (2017- 2018) [PI].
8.) Hans Christian Ørsted Co-funded Marie-Curie action postdoctoral fellowship from European Commission for “Hi-POSS: High power supercontinuum sources” at DTU. Highly prestigious fellowship named after Father of Electromagnetism and Nobel Laureate Madame Marie Curie (2016-2018). (8.6 % success rate, only 18 fellowships were awarded out of 210 International Applications from 46 nationalities) [PI].
Awards
1.) Senior Member, IEEE, July 2021.
2.) Semi-finalist for SPIE’s Start-up and Entrepreneurship Program, April 2021.
3.) Senior Member, The Optical Society (OSA), July-2020.
4.) PhD work presented at House of Commons in parliament of UK for “SET For Britain” event.
5.) Invited Speaker at prestigious laser and optics conferences “CLEO-2014”, San Jose, USA and “CLEO PR-2018”, Hong Kong.
6.) 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Germany and Global Young Science Summit-2015 Singapore alumnus.
7.) 2nd place in ABTA (Association of British and Turkish Academics) Doctoral researcher award. (156 applicants from 49 universities in the entire UK), 16th May 2015.
8.) Best flash talk and poster presentation award on photonics day celebration at Zepler Institute, University of Southampton, UK.