Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the great leader who founded our Republic was commemorated with a ceremony attended by our faculty members, administrative staff members and students in the morning on November, 10.

Held in Sabancı University Performing Arts Center, the ceremony started with a minute of silence and the national anthem. Starting with the opening speech of Meltem Müftüler-Baç, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), the ceremony continued with the speeches of Yusuf Leblebici, our President, and Ayşe Ozil, member of the FASS.

Pointing out that as Sabancı University, they always adopted the principle of having the positive sciences and rationality as a guide, Yusuf Leblebici said the following: “From the day our university was established, all our faculty members, students and alumni shared this goal. We will continue to do our best to raise young world citizens with “free thought, free understanding and free conscience”, as our leader, Atatürk guided us”.

Ayşe Ozil, this year’s speaker for the Commemoration of Atatürk, said, “It is a great honor for me to be invited to a ceremony at our University to deliver a 10^th of November speech”. She covered the historical evolution of university as an institution in Turkey from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic, highlighting the importance of Atatürk and other leading individuals who were involved in the foundation of the Republic. Talking about the achievements regarding the establishment of a university and the institutionalization of scientific production in the history of modern Turkey, Ayşe Ozil gave examples of the concrete steps taken for that purpose, and highlighted women’s involvement in academic life.

FASS/VAVCD faculty member Yoong Wah Alex Wong, Vanishing White photograph series participated in group exhibitions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Glasgow Science Centre, Scotland, United Kingdom (31 Oct – 12 Nov 2021) and Berlin Photo Week (20 Aug – 12 Sept 2021), Germany.

Using photography as a means to express ideas and values, the BarTur Photo Award has selected photographers who are pushing essential issues to the forefront, crossing boundaries and helping to bring communities together. In the exhibitions, The BarTur Photo Award is delighted to present 2021 and 2020 winners' selected photographs who have taken images from across the world, championing a range of social, economic and environmental issues impacting so many people's lives.

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Graduate students will be accepted for the 2021-2022 Spring Semester leading to the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the following programs.

Detailed information on research areas including basic sciences can be obtained at http://fens.sabanciuniv.edu.

Academic inquiries should only be posted to contact names for each program given below; for administrative or procedure related questions please contact to Student Resources Office.

Phone: +90 (216) 483 9093, E-mail: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu

Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering
The program emphasizes the latest developments and technological innovations in this globally emerging field. Areas of specialization include molecular and cellular biology, bioinformatics, and plant biotechnology.

Academic Contact: Christopher Mayack
Phone: +90 (216) 568 7038 
E-mail:  christopher.mayack@sabanciuniv.edu

Computer Science and Engineering
Research areas; natural language processing, pattern recognition, formal methods, software engineering, cryptography and information security, network security, computer architectures, distributed systems, database systems, data mining, computer graphics and virtual reality, embedded systems, knowledge representation and reasoning.

Academic Contact: Reyyan Yeniterzi
Phone: +90 (216) 568 7041
E-mail: reyyan.yeniterzi@sabanciuniv.edu

Cyber Security
Research areas; computer network security, cryptography, blockchains, biometric systems, cryptographic engineering, wireless system security, data security, software security. 

Academic Contact: Erdinç Öztürk
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9514

E-mail: erdinc.ozturk@sabanciuniv.edu

Data Science

Research areas; cloud computing, data mining, data privacy and security, data visualization, high performance computing, machine learning, optimization and decision making, statistics.

Academic Contact: Öznur Taştan Okan
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9883
E-mail: oznur.tastan@sabanciuniv.edu

Electronics Engineering 
Research areas; wireless communication, wireless networks, sensor networks, signal, speech and image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, data networks, RF, microwaves, antennas and propagation, RF MEMS and RF Circuit design, photonics and fiber optic telecommunication, high-speed electronic devices, microsensors and microelectromechanical systems, medical and industrial ultrasonic imaging, medical instrumentation, analog and digital VLSI design, ASIC and FPGA design, computer-aided design and testing.

Academic Contact: Hüseyin Özkan
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9594
E-mail: huseyin.ozkan@sabanciuniv.edu

Energy Technologies and Management Master Program (With Thesis)

An interdisciplinary program with focus on the following research areas: renewable energy systems; energy systems modeling; vehicle electrification; green transportation; economic, environmental and policy implications in energy systems; technology design, analysis and optimization.  

Academic Contact: Tuğçe Yüksel
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9987
E-mail: tyuksel@sabanciuniv.edu

Industrial Engineering 
The program focuses on production and service systems, integrated manufacturing, supply chain management, logistics, joint inventory-pricing decisions, product development process, modeling and analysis of manufacturing processes and equipment, manufacturing and technology strategies, fuzzy systems, combinatorial optimization and operations research approaches to telecommunication and energy systems. Emphasis is given to close collaboration with the industry.

Academic Contact: Burak Kocuk

Phone: +90 (216) 568 7039
E-mail: burakkocuk@sabanciuniv.edu

Manufacturing Engineering

The Manufacturing Engineering program focuses on advanced manufacturing technologies. The research areas include manufacturing processes and equipment, computer-aided design and manufacturing, integrated manufacturing systems, additive manufacturing (3D printing), biomanufacturing, nano-micro manufacturing, composite and polymer manufacturing, and manufacturing and technology strategies with special emphasis on industrial applications. 

Academic Contact: Bahattin Koç

Phone: +90 (216) 483 9557
E-mail: bahattin.koc@sabanciuniv.edu

Materials Science and Nano Engineering  
The program focuses on the interrelationships between structure, properties, and processing of materials for advanced technological applications.  Areas of ongoing research include semiconductors, synthetic and biological polymers, ceramics and composites at the nanometer scale, with particular emphasis on applications in nano-technology.

Academic Contact: Emre Erdem
Phone: +90 (216) ) 483 9881
E-mail: emre.erdem@sabanciuniv.edu

Mathematics  
The program emphasizes the interaction between pure mathematics and its applications, including those leading to interdisciplinary work. The main areas of concentration are number theory and algebra with applications in coding theory and cryptography, analysis and applications.

Academic Contact: Nihat Gökhan Göğüş
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9615
E-mail: gokhan.gogus@sabanciuniv.edu

Mechatronics Engineering
Research areas;  smart product design, multi-disciplinary design optimization, topology design optimization, metamaterials, microsystems, intelligent control systems, robotics, machine vision, haptics, computer aided engineering, renewable energy systems, embedded systems, process control, hydro-turbines, advanced seals, turbine blade reverse engineering. Two-phase flow, Boiling heat transfer, MEMS, Boiling instabilities in microsystems, Convective heat transfer, Critical Heat Flux, Microchannels, Cavitation, Micro- and Nanofluidics, Micro pin-fins, Cross flow, Electronics cooling, Miniaturization of heat sinks. Vibration analysis and control of engineering systems, vibration modeling of continuous systems, experimental modal analysis methods, dynamics of micromachining, design and fabrication of miniature medical devices.

Academic Contact:  Melih Türkseven
Telefon: +90 (216) 483 9542
E-posta: melih.turkseven@sabanciuniv.edu

Physics
In condensed matter physics the main research areas are experimental and theoretical semiconductor physics, mesoscopic and nanoscopic physics, and superconductivity. In high energy astrophysics, X-, gamma ray and optical obervations of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes) and their environments are the main areas of interest. Other research fields are quantum information and high energy physics.

Academic Contact: Ünal Ertan
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9560
E-posta:  unal.ertan@sabanciuniv.edu

For Admisson :
Admission Requirements and the Necessary Documents for Graduate School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Applicants must have completed their previous degree programs by January 26, 2022.

Financial Support:
Financial support is available in the form of a monthly stipend and/or tuition waiver. Decisions on scholarship will be made by the Admissions Committee .

Deadline:
Applications must be submitted by December, 3rd 2021. After initial screening, interviews will be scheduled for potential candidates during 13 – 24th December,  2021. Applicants will be informed by e-mail. It is highly recommended to check e-mails for candidates.

Applications:

For the Applications to Graduate Programs of Engineering and Natural Sciences, please click here.

Please contact studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu if you have any questions regarding your graduate application.

Applications should be submitted via online application system only. Applications sent via e-mail cannot be evaluated.

We would like to remind you that if you get admitted, originals of all official documents required to be submitted during university registrations.

Carried out by the Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) with the support of the Sabancı Foundation, the Purple Certificate Program will reward efforts of teachers and candidate teachers in the field of gender equality for the first time in Turkey.

The program has continued for 14 years in order to build a culture of gender awareness in education. Within the framework of “the Purple Certificate Program Gender Equality in Education Awards”, winners will be announced in the following categories: “İpek Gürkaynak Creative Pedagogy”, “Gender Equality”, “Egalitarian Practices” and “Purple Seeds”. The awards aim to add visibility to the efforts of hundreds of teachers with a Purple Certificate Program degree to integrate what they acquired from the program to their teaching environment, and inspire teachers and candidate teachers from all over Turkey.

The award ceremony will be held with the participation and speeches of Prof. Dr. Yusuf Leblebici, President of Sabancı University, Nevgül Bilsel Safkan, General Manager of the Sabancı Foundation, Prof. Dr. Hülya Adak, Director of SU Gender, and İpek Gürkaynak, Instructor of the Purple Certificate Program. In addition, a panel entitled “Working Gender Equality at School” will be held with the participation of the award-winning teachers. 

All members of Sabancı University are invited to the “the Purple Certificate Program Gender Equality in Education Awards” ceremony, which will be broadcast live at 17:00 on Thursday, November 11, 2021.

Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021

Time: 17.00

Online participation link: https://sabanciuniv.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v0U-Y56dQQCy58X8uKTsjw

Commemoration ceremony for the 83^rd anniversary of the passing of the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, will be held in the Sabancı University Performing Arts Center (SGM) on Wednesday, November 10th, 2021, starting at 8:45.

Ayşe Ozil, member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will deliver her speech entitled “Institutions and Education in Atatürk’s Era” in the ceremony. Due to the pandemic, a limited number of participants will be accepted physically in the ceremony, and it will be broadcast live on Zoom as well. Those who want to attend the ceremony at SGM should register for physical participation by sending an e-mail to pr@sabanciuniv.edu

Zoom registration link is https://sabanciuniv.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xghXdg7ZSn6OSMw80lrMsg

Simultaneous translation to English will be provided at the ceremony.

Sabancı University 2021-2022 Academic Year Spring Semester Graduate Programs Quotas

Raha Akhavan, member of Sabancı Business School, had a very important swimming achievement in the US. Managing to swim across the Catalina Channel known as “the Mount Everest of marathon swimming” in 15 hours, Tabatabaei talked to gazeteSU about a wide range of topics from her passion for swimming to her targets.

-How did your interest in swimming begin?

I learned swimming before learning how to read and write! From that very early age, I loved being in the water all the time. It was tough for my parents to get me out of the pool every time I had a chance to swim. When I was growing up in Iran, because of the school work I didn’t have much chance to swim until I entered the university. There I was recruited to the swim team and competed for 4 years with my team against other universities. That period defiantly installed a permanent affection for the competitive sports and systematic training in me. When I moved to the US for my PhD again I took a break from it but I always knew that I would go back to it one day. When I got my first academic job in Bogota, Colombia I was introduced to the sport of triathlon and started training for the 3 sports of swimming, biking and running for short distances. I did my first race swimming from a mini-island to the main island in the Caribbean sea and at that moment I realized this is what I want to do: to swim in the sea, in the open water, in the nature. That feeling of infinity, endlessness of the sea and the ocean is something that is not comparable to any other feeling I have experienced in my life. Then I moved to Turkey to work at Sabancı University and I decided to participate in the annual swim race in the Bosphorus in 2017. I began training for it with discipline and when the race finished, I felt like I wanted to do more. So I began to look into longer races and options. Fortunately in Turkey there is a large community of open water swimmers and many races in beautiful spots of the country, so I was very motivated to train and practice.

-How can you describe swimming in your life?

 Swimming is my passion, it is what gives me calm and peace like meditation. Whenever I am happy I wanna swim, when I am sad or angry or anxious about something I also want to go swim. It makes me find my core, my purpose and strength again. It has helped me tremendously in life.

-You finished difficult and dangerous open-water swim route in US. Can you tell us the preparation process for this track?

For this particular swim, which is the longest I have done in my life I started preparing since 2 years ago. I first worked hard on correcting my technique with the help of a Turkish coach. Since you need to repeat the same motions a few thousand times in each practice or the main swim, it is very important to use your muscles and power in the most efficient way possible. Good technique helps you achieve that. Then I started working on my endurance and getting my mind and body used to the distance. It was particularly difficult to keep up with a training plan since the pools were closed for a long time due to the pandemic. So I had to train in the sea, but then the mucilage came and that option was also gone… it was a very challenging two years for my training but I always found some solution to not quit and finally made it.

-Can you tell us about your other achievements in swimming?

In 2019 I swam from Ireland to Scotland with a team of four in the form of relay. Each of us would swim for an hour and change with the next person and repeat, until we reached land. It took us around 13 hours in 12-14 degree waters with horrendous jelly fish that is particular to that area. With the same team and one month later, we also crossed the English Channel. In Turkey, I participate in the Bosporus race every year in Istanbul, but also in longer races for 5 to 10 km in Alanya, Bodrum, Marmaris. I have won several medals in those races, mainly I became fist in my age group for a swim from Greece (Meis Island) to Kas in 2019. I have swum many times from Caddebostan Sahil to the islands and back as part of my trainings, I know every house and rock around Kınalıada and Burgazada by heart now.

-We know that your academic life is very busy. How do you combine your swimming activities with your academic life?

I do it with a lot of planning and perseverance. I usually wake up very early to train and get that out of my way, then start to work. On the weekends I do my long trainings when I have more time. But sometimes I have to miss on training of course, if there is a deadline or some academic event such as a conference. But overall I can say that I have found a good balance now. My dean and my colleagues are also very supportive and encouraging and that helps a lot.

-Do you have any goals you want to achieve in swimming in the future?

I am planning to swim the English Channel (from England to France) in solo (without a team, only by myself swimming all the way) and round Manhattan Island in New York. I have also registered for crossing the Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco. These are my organized future plans for now, hopefully within the next two years. But I would also like to try new routes in Turkey, in the Marmara sea and also in Ege. I enjoy swimming in every part of Turkey very much!

The Times Higher Education (THE) has announced the 2022 Emerging Economies University Rankings. Once again, Sabancı University ranked as the top university in Turkey. As in previous years, Sabancı University maintained its top position among Turkish universities included in the rankings.

Times Higher Education (THE) has announced the 2022 Emerging Economies University Rankings. Sabancı University ranked 44^th in the THE Emerging Economies University Rankings, which include 698 universities from 52 countries, becoming the best among the 54 Turkish universities.  

According to the Times Higher Education 2022 World University Rankings by subject, Sabancı University ranked in the bracket of 401-500 among 891 universities in Computer Science, becoming the highest-ranking foundation university in Turkey.

Professor Yusuf Leblebici, President of Sabancı University, said Sabancı University had become the top university in Turkey on the research dimension, which is determined by the number of scientific publications and researchers, according to the THE data.

Pointing out that they continued to progress in order to become a well-known and highly-acclaimed research university in the world, Yusuf Leblebici said the following: “As Sabancı University, we are making a difference in Turkey and in the world through our high-quality and unique education programs, in addition to our research outputs, which represent our contributions to the world of science. Consequently, we obtain very good results both in the emerging economies university rankings and in the world university rankings. Over the last 3 years, we ranked as the top university in Turkey according to the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings. According to the THE data, we are the leading university in Turkey on the research dimension, which is determined by the number of scientific publications and researchers. In addition, we ranked 27^th among all the universities in the world in terms of industry-supported projects and industry income. We not only remain the best university in Turkey, but also continue on our way to becoming a well-known and highly-acclaimed university in the world. Accordingly, we continuously prepare for the future. We are making steps to further enrich our research infrastructure. We host large-scale domestic and international projects through the centers at our University. Currently, you can see the signature of Sabancı University on many projects with great scientific achievements that shape the future. These results are an indication of our successful work.”

In the coordination of GE Academy, students from Deusto University, Spain and Sabancı University & Hacettepe University, Turkey come together and share their experiences of what challenges they face and which strategies they use while doing student activism on their campuses.

In the coordination of GE Academy, students from Deusto University, Spain and Sabancı University & Hacettepe University, Turkey come together and share their experiences of what challenges they face and which strategies they use while doing student activism on their campuses.

There will be simultaneous translation from English to Turkish, Spanish and Basque languages.

YouGov Turkey, of which Özge Akçizmeci Üstün, our alumna, is the General Manager, has received 4 awards in the Owl Awards.

The Owl Awards were organized for the ninth time this year by the Turkish Researchers Association (TUAD) to demonstrate the impact of marketing research and opinion polls on business results, develop relations between research companies, their clients and data collection companies, and reward successful business partnerships. YouGov Turkey received 4 awards, of which 2 in innovative, 1 in visionary and 1 in shopper category.

This year, 49 projects among 138 applications were rewarded in the Owl Awards.  The jury comprised of 21 people from FMCG, finance, academia, advertising, research, data collection, media, communications, medical and insurance sectors, and evaluated applications in 14 categories on September 22 and 23.

Wizsight market research company established by our alumna, Özge Akçizmeci Üstün, previously received 4 Owl Awards.

You can have more detailed information about YouGov Turkey via this link.