 Between 1993 and 1995, he worked as a scientist in the Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory at Iowa State University in the area of photonic band gap materials.He joined Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in the physics and electrical electronics engineering departments.His research areas include metamaterials, photonic crystals,
MOCVD growth, fabrication and characterization of nanoelectronic and nanophotonic GaN/AlGaN devices, and high performance near-infrared semiconductor photodetectors and lasers.