Prof. Dr. Ömer Ilday

Professor

Nonlinearity Engineering

Address:
Ruhr University Bochum
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Nonlinearity Engineering
Postbox ID 3
Universitätsstraße 150
D-44801 Bochum

Room:
ID 1/341

Phone:
(+49)(0)234 / 32 - 29914

Email:
oemer.ilday(at)rub.de

Website:
nle.rub.de

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Ilday’s research builds on a creative interplay between basic science, applications, and engineering. Its keystone is the judicious engineering of nonlinear dynamics, which explores in laser physics and ultrafast light-matter interactions. He studied theoretical physics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, graduating valedictorian in 1998. He took his Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2003. He worked at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2003 to 2006. Between 2006 and 2023, he worked as a professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. In 2023, he answered the call of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, nominated by the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, where he is now a professor.

Dr. Ilday was awarded the European Research Council’s (ERC) prestigious Consolidator Grant in 2013, the first ERC grant on basic science in Turkey, the ERC Proof of Concept Grant in 2021, and the ERC Advanced Grant in 2022. His contributions to science have been generously recognised through the Findlay Award, TÜBA-GEBIP Award, Teşvik Award (TÜBİTAK), Engin Arık Science Award from the Turkish Physical Society, and the top award in science in Turkey, the Science Award of TÜBİTAK, and the Humboldt Professorship by the esteemed Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Ilday has been elected to the Science Academy of Turkey and Academia Europaea.

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2024

[1]
M. Zolfaghari Borra et al., ‘Development of a selective wet-chemical etchant for precise 3D sculpting of silicon enabled by infrared non-linear laser modification’, Optics & laser technology, vol. 176, Art. no. 111022, Sep. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2024.111022.
[2]
R. S. Marjoribanks et al., ‘Plasma persistence, accumulated absorption, and scattering: what physics lets us control the heat left behind in ultrafast-pulse burst-mode laser surgery’, in FRONTIERS IN ULTRAFAST OPTICS:BIOMEDICAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS XXIV, Mar. 2024, vol. 12875. doi: 10.1117/12.3011290.
[3]
F. Ö. Ilday, ‘Driven by feedback, unlimited by diffraction’, Nature photonics, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 771–772, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.1038/s41566-024-01485-0.
[4]
E. Hasar, S. Aşmanoğlu, F. Ö. Ilday, and P. Elahi, ‘High efficiency laser ablation of gold thin film by 2.8 GHz intraburst repetition rate pulses’, Optical and quantum electronics, vol. 56, no. 8, Art. no. 1357, Jul. 2024, doi: 10.1007/s11082-024-07264-z.
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2023

[1]
S. Ilday and F. Ö. Ilday, ‘The universality of self-organisation: A path to an atom printer?’, in Ultrafast laser nanostructuring, vol. 239, R. Stoian and J. Bonse, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023, pp. 173–207. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-14752-4_4.
[2]
M. Laçin, P. Repgen, A. Sura, Ç. Şenel, and F. Ö. Ilday, ‘Analogy of harmonic modelocked pulses to trapped Brownian particles improves laser performance’, Applied physics B, vol. 129, no. 3, Art. no. 46, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1007/s00340-023-07979-z.
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2020

[1]
G. Makey et al., ‘Universality of dissipative self-assembly from quantum dots to human cells’, Nature physics, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 795–801, Apr. 2020, doi: 10.1038/s41567-020-0879-8.
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2019

[1]
G. Makey et al., ‘Breaking crosstalk limits to dynamic holography using orthogonality of high-dimensional random vectors’, Nature photonics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 251–256, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1038/s41566-019-0393-7.
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2018

[1]
F. Ö. Ilday, M. Hoffmann, and C. J. Saraceno, ‘Discrete similariton regime for energy scaling of modelocked thin-disk lasers’, in 2018 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO), Jan. 2018, Published.
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2017

[1]
O. Tokel et al., ‘In-chip microstructures and photonic devices fabricated by nonlinear laser lithography deep inside silicon’, Nature photonics, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 639–645, 2017, doi: 10.1038/s41566-017-0004-4.
[2]
S. Ilday et al., ‘Rich complex behaviour of self-assembled nanoparticles far from equilibrium’, Nature communications, vol. 8, no. 1, Art. no. 14942, Apr. 2017, doi: 10.1038/ncomms14942.
[3]
O. Tokel et al., ‘Laser-slicing of silicon with 3D nonlinear laser lithography’, in 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2017), München, Nov. 2017, Published. doi: 10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2017.8087259.
[4]
I. A. Pavlov et al., ‘Femtosecond laser written waveguides deep inside silicon’, Optics letters, vol. 42, no. 15, pp. 3028–3031, Jul. 2017, doi: 10.1364/ol.42.003028.
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2016

[1]
S. Ilday et al., ‘Multiscale self-assembly of Silicon quantum dots into an anisotropic three-dimensional random network’, Nano letters, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1942–1948, Feb. 2016, doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05158.
[2]
I. Gnilitskyi et al., ‘Nano patterning of AISI 316L stainless steel with Nonlinear Laser Lithography : sliding under dry and oil-lubricated conditions’, Tribology international, vol. 99, pp. 67–76, Mar. 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.triboint.2016.03.011.
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2015

[1]
L. Orazi, I. Gnilitskyi, I. Pavlov, A. P. Serro, S. Ilday, and F. Ö. Ilday, ‘Nonlinear laser lithography to control surface properties of stainless steel’, CIRP annals, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 193–196, Jun. 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.cirp.2015.04.038.
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2013

[1]
B. Öktem et al., ‘Nonlinear laser lithography for indefinitely large-area nanostructuring with femtosecond pulses’, Nature photonics, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 897–901, Oct. 2013, doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.272.
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Postal Address

Ruhr University Bochum
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Nonlinearity Engineering
Postbox ID 3
Universitätsstraße 150
D-44801 Bochum

Contact

Administration Office
Room: ID 1/347
Phone: (+49) (0) 234 32 - 27645
Email: office-nle(at)rub.de
RUB campus map & travel instructions

Professor

Prof. Dr. Ömer Ilday
Room: ID 1/341 
Phone: (+49) (0) 234 32 - 29914
Email: oemer.ilday(at)rub.de

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