Biography

Özlem Tuğfe Demir received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2012, 2014, and 2018, respectively. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Linköping University, Sweden in 2019-2020 and at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden in 2021-2022. She was an Assistant Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in 2022-2025. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkiye. She has authored the textbooks Foundations of User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO (2021) and Introduction to Multiple Antenna Communications and Reconfigurable Surfaces (2024). Her research interests focus on signal processing and optimization in wireless communications, massive MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO, beyond 5G multiple antenna technologies, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, near-field communications, and green mobile networks. She is also an Editor of Wireless Communication Theory and Systems for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.