WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan 2021 – Current

Assistant Professor and Chair at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Kadir Has University

General Duties and Field of Study:

  • Establish a New Research and Development Building (planning the building, arranging and organizing research labs, listing fundamental instrumentation and finding proper locations in the building, writing proposals, etc.)

  • Research (%80), Teaching and Related Duties (%15), Administrative Support (%5)

  • Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials as Templates

  • Polyrotaxanes as Smart Polymer Binders and their Various End Applications

  • Novel Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis Anti-Cancer Agents: Systems Biology Approach

  • Teach Core Courses (KHAS101 and KHAS102) – Chemistry Modules, General Chemistry I (CH103) and II (CH104), and mentoring undergraduate/graduatestudents

 June 2020 – Dec 2020

Visiting Professor at Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Kadir Has University

General Duties and Field of Study:

  • Research (%70), Teaching and Related Duties (%20), Administrative Support (%10)

  • Highly Ordered “Active Pockets” from Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials as Templates (HOAPs)

  • Polyrotaxanes as Smart Polymer Binders (PRs-SPBs) and their Various End Applications

  • Novel Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis (BCBM) Anti-Cancer Reagents: Systems Biology Approach

  • Teach Core Course KHAS101 – Chemistry Module and mentoring undergraduate/graduatestudents

Sep 2019 – May 2020

Technical Specialist at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox

General Duties and Field of Study:

  • Perform research and analysis on scientific innovations within the areas fitting in his expertise

  • Conduct prior art database searches, and analyze patent and scientific papers and documents

  • Prepare presentations and have sessions to teach and explain the details of the innovations to attorneys and different business teams, and advise lawyers on technology issues in preparation for depositions

  • Provide guidance on a variety of patent and intellectual property-related issues

  • Evaluate the patentability and freedom to operate analyses of innovations, prepare and draft patent applications, prepare patentability, infringement and validity opinions, and response to office actions

Sep 2017 – Aug 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow with 2016 Nobel Laureate Prof. Sir J. Fraser Stoddart at Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

General Duties and Field of Study:

  • Design, creation and characterization of chemical compounds and materials for various end uses including but not limited to molecular electronics, energy harvesting and storage, and separations technology

  • Combining intra- and intermolecular charge transfer with polycationic cyclophanes to design 2D tessellations

  • Switchable rotaxanes and catenanes, powering supramolecular machines with nanoscale power supplies, nanofabrication

  • New generation late transition metal ion catalysts and their catalytic applications

  • BODIPY-based monomer and polymer syntheses and their applications as photosensitizers

  • Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and their catalytic applications

  • Mentoring undergraduate/graduate students (1 undergraduate and 2 graduate students)

Jan 2012 – Aug 2017

Research and Teaching Assistant with Prof. Michael F. Mayer at Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University

General Duties and Field of Study:

  • Synthesis of metalated pseudorotaxane polymers with full control over the average linear density of threaded macrocycles

  • [2]Rotaxane, [2]catenane syntheses, use of Ring Closing Metathesis (RCM), Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) and Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) polymerization

  • Ionic liquid syntheses and various applications

  • Anti-cancer drug synthesis for breast cancer and brain metastasis

  • Synthesis and characterization of copper(I) complexes for study of dynamic supramolecular ring-chain equilibria and applications as photo-redox catalysts

  • Teaching Organic Chemistry II Recitation (3306 (2 sections)), Organic and General Chemistry Labs (1108 (3 sections), 3105 (2 sections), 3106 (2 sections)), Advanced Organic Chemistry Lab (3201 (1 section))

  • Mentoring undergraduate students (4 undergraduate students)

 Jan 2009 – Aug 2011

Research Adjunct at Department of Chemistry, State University of New York College at Buffalo

General Duties and Field of Study:

  • Synthesis of Indian yellow pigment and its applications on paintings

  • Mentoring undergraduate students (2 students)

  • Lecturing Organic Chemistry (I and II) and teaching Organic Chemistry Labs (I and II), planning course instruction based upon approved syllabus/outline, utilizing a variety of teaching techniques to accommodate the learning skills of a diverse student enrolment, designing, administrating, and grading examinations of courses, actively working to retain a high level of enrolment and daily attendance records

 Jan 2007 – Dec 2008

Research and Teaching Assistant with Prof. M. Scott Goodman at Department of Chemistry, State University of New York College at Buffalo

General Duties and Field of Study:

  • Approaches to the synthesis of Indian yellow

  • Time-resolved FTIR measurements of the thermally activated decay of meta-stable states I and II in Sodium Nitroprusside

  • Mentoring undergraduate students (1 student)

  • Teaching Organic Chemistry Labs (I and II), planning lab instruction and experiments based upon approved syllabus/outline, utilizing a variety of teaching techniques and lab skills to accommodate the learning skills of a diverse student enrolment

 Oct 2005 – Dec 2006

Research and Teaching Assistant with Prof. Nurettin Yayli at Department of Chemistry, Karadeniz Technical University

General Duties and Field of Study:

  • Photochemical synthesis

  • Synthesis of natural products, polymers, and extraction of oils from natural plants

  • Teaching Organic Chemistry Labs (I and II) and Instrumental Analysis Lab, planning lab instruction and experiments based upon approved syllabus/outline, utilizing a variety of teaching techniques and lab skills to accommodate the learning skills of a diverse student enrolment, and using instruments actively (UV, IR, AES, AAS, GC-MS, NMR)