FENS Newsletter - Issue 5

Dear Students, Friends, and Colleagues,

We are happy to be back with another edition of FENS Newsletter. We are about to leave behind another successful year and ready to celebrate the new one with high expectations. In this issue, you can find a summary of various activities such as seminars and events, achievements, awards, projects, and research highlights.

First and foremost, we would like to welcome our new faculty members, Alp Yürüm, Duygu Taş, Erchan Aptoula, Gökalp Alpan, Kürşat Çağıltay, Mohaned Chraiti and Ongun Özçelik; new instructors Atıl Utku Ay and İhsan Sadati; and finally, Morteza Ghorbani as Researcher.

After COVID-19 pandemic, all students are back, the campus is a vibrant place more than ever many activities and events. You can find a list of scientific activities organized by FENS in the Seminars & Events section such as “Dean’s Speaker Series”, “Sharing Experiences: Faculty Learn from Each Other”, Info Days, and our signature event “Teknolojinin Gücüyle Geleceğe”.

In the Projects section, you can see that FENS faculty members have been very active in preparing project proposals, and our project portfolio is growing with new national and international grants. We would also like remind you that there are many calls within the framework of Horizon Europe that may interest you and you can keep in touch with us and SU-ATT to learn more about them.

In the Research Highlights section, we include some of the impactful research projects and results while the Awards & Recognition and Other Achievements sections list awards and other types of recognitions received by FENS members. We extend our sincere congratulations to all them and wish further success in their future academic endeavors. In the Hot Topics section, you can find interesting reading pieces contributed by FENS faculty members; we thank them for their continued engagement. And finally, you can check the News section to see what else happened at FENS.

We would also like to thank our vice dean for research and her team members, and outreach committee for preparing this newsletter and all our faculty members who duly responded to our calls for data for the newsletter.

Note that the events, activities and news in this issue pertain to the time interval between April 1, 2022 and November 1, 2022. If we miss any project, activity, achievements of yours in this issue, please let us know so that we include them in the next issue.

To conclude, we would like to invite you all to join us celebrating all our achievements, which are made possible by hard work, collective effort, dedication, and perseverance.