MELIK C. DEMIREL
Pearce Assistant Professor of Engineering, Penn State, 2003--present 
Adjunct Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh


Dept. of Engineering Science & Mech., College of Engineering
Member of Materials Research Institute & Huck Life Sciences

Young Investigator Award, ONR ,Department of Defense, 2007
A.v.Humboldt Fellow, Max-Planck für Biophysikalische Chemie, 2005
ICAM Junior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory 2003
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002
M.S./B.S. Bogazici Univeristy, 1998/1996

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Teaching/Courses

Background

Prof. Melik Demirel began his appointment as the Pearce Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in 2003. His research focuses on the understanding of  the nanoscale properties of polymeric systems. Before joining to Penn State, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow and at the National Institute of Health as a research scientist. He has received his Ph.D. degree from the Carnegie Mellon University. He also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.

Current Research Projects

1. Dynamics of Biomolecules
2. Structured Polymers

Selected Publications
Demirel, M.C. and Lesk, A.M., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 95, 2005, 208106

Demirel, M.C., Kuprat, A.P, George, D.C., and Rollett, A.D., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 90, 2003, 16106.

Bahar, I., Atilgan, A.R., Demirel, M.C. and Erman, B., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 80, 1998, 2733
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New Courses
ESC-483 Simulation and Design of Nanostructures   Course web site  
ESC-484 Biologically Inspired Nanomaterials   Course web site

Contact Info
Phone: 814-863-2270 (office)
           814-863-9967 (Lab-EES 107)
           814-863-9967 (Lab-EES 114A)

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