Demirel, Melik C.

Demirel, Melik C.

Associate Professor

Office phone: (814) 863-2270
Office address: 205A EES BL
E-mail: mdemirel@engr.psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.esm.psu.edu/~mcd18/

Degrees with Fields, Institution, and Date

  • Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002
  • M.S., Engineering / Polymers, Bogazici University, 1998
  • B.S., Engineering, Bogazici University, 1996

Number of Years of Service on This Faculty (5 years)

  • July 2003 – July 2006 Pearce Assistant Professor, Penn State University
  • June 2001 – June 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • May 2001 – May 1999 Graduate Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
  • May 1998 – May 1999 Research Associate, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Other Related Experience — Teaching, Industrial, Etc.

  • May 2008 – May 2011 Adjunct Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

Principal Publications of the Last Five Years

  • Rama Gullapalli and Melik C. Demirel (2008) “Molecular dynamics simulation of long-chain carbocyanine dyes in a DPPC lipid bilayer,” PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 10, pp. 1–13.
  • Ping Kao, Niranjan Malvadkar, Murat Cetinkaya, Hui Wang, David Allara, and Melik C. Demirel (2008) “Surface Enhanced Raman Detection on Metallized Nanostructured Polymer Films,” ADVANCED MATERIALS, 20, pp. in press.
  • Melik C. Demirel, Murat Cetinkaya, and Walter Dressick (2007) “A Non-Covalent Method for Depositing Nanoporous Metals via Spatially Organized Poly(P-xylylene) Films,” ADVANCED MATERIALS, 19, pp. 4495–4499.
  • Melik C. Demirel (2007) “Controlling the Wettability and Adhesion of Nanostructured Poly-(p-xylylene) Films,” LANGMUIR, 23, pp. 11391–11395.
  • Murat Cetinkaya and Melik C. Demirel (2007) “Growth of Nanostructured Thin Films of Poly(p-xylylene) Derivatives by Vapor Deposition,” POLYMER, 48, pp. 4130–4134.
  • Melik C. Demirel (2007) “Spatially Organized Free-Standing Poly(P-xylylene) Nanowires Fabricated by Vapor Deposition,” LANGMUIR, 23, pp. 5861–5863.
  • Murat Cetinkaya and Melik C. Demirel (2006) “How do insertions affect Green Fluorescent Protein,” CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, 419, pp. 48–54.
  • Melik C. Demirel and Arthur Lesk (2005) “Molecular Forces in Antibody Maturation,” PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 95, pp. 208106.
  • (2005) “Protein Interactions and Fluctuations in a Proteomic Network using an Elastic Network Model,” JOURNAL of BIO-MOLECULAR STRUCTURE and DYNAMICS, 22, pp. 381–385.
  • Melik C. Demirel (2003) “Bridging Experiments and Simulations in Microstructural Evolution,” PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 90, pp. 16106.
  • Melik C. Demirel (2003) “Modeling Microstructure Evolution in 3 Dimensions with Grain3D and LaGriT,” COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, 28, pp. 199–208.

Consulting, Patents, and Scientific and Professional Societies of Which a Member

  • Consulting, Kisco International (2007 – 2008)
  • 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

  • Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical School (2008)
  • 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)

Institutional and Professional Service in the Last Five Years

  • 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)