Demirel, Melik C.
Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Biomimetic Materials
Office phone: (814) 863-2270
Office address: 302B Earth and Engineering Sciences Building
Office hours: Tuesday, Thursday: 4:00 - 5:00pm
E-mail: mcd18@psu.edu
Homepage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melikdemirel/
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002
- M.S., Engineering, Bogazici University, 1998
- B.S., Engineering, Bogazici University, 1996
Years of Service with Penn State
- 2013 – 2018 Professor (tenured), Penn State University
- 2008 – 2013 Associate (tenured) Professor, Penn State University
- 2003 – 2008 Pearce Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Other Related Experience — Teaching, Industrial, Etc.
- 2003 – 2004 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Molecular Biology, Max Planck Instittute, Gottingen, Germany
- 2002 – 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Division (T) and Materials Science & Technology Division (MST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Recent Principal Publications
Consulting, Patents, and Scientific and Professional Society Memberships
- Member of American Chemical Society (2006 – 2008)
- Member of Materials Research Society (2002 – 2008)
- U.S. Patent 60/913,574, Melik Demirel. METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEPOSITING NANOPOROUS THIN FILMS AND MULTI-FUNCTIONAL LAYERS VIA SPATIALLY ORGANIZED POLYMERS (2007)
- U.S. Patent 20070148206, Melik Demirel. METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMING AND USING NANOENGINEERED SCULPTURED THIN FILMS (2006)
- Member of the American Society of Engineering Educators (2003 – 2005)
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Research Award, Penn State (2013)
- Wyss Institute Visiting Scholar, Harvard Univeristy (2010)
- Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense (2007)
- Alexander von Humboldt Award, Germany (2005)
- Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Junior Fellow, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (2003)
- Graduate Student Award, Materials Research Society (2002)
- Graduate Presentation Award, Carnegie Mellon University (2000)
- Publication Prize, Bogazici University (1997)
Recent Institutional and Professional Service
- Adhoc Member, Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section, National Institutes of Health (Jan 2005 – Jan 2008)
- Review Panel Member, National Science Foundation (2004 – 2008)
- Editorial Board, Journal of Nanomedicine (Jan 2005 – Jan 2007)
- Co-organizer for Imaging and biophotonics, Huck Institute of Life Sciences, Cross Over, Penn State University (2006 – 2006)
- Co-organizer for the C1-Biological Nanostructures, Materials, and Applications, Electrochemistry Society (2006 – 2006)
- Co-organizer of the Biologically Inspired Nanomaterials Conference, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (2005 – 2005)
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