Dr. Ali Oguz Er
Assistant Professor
Office: TCCW 216
Phone: (270) 745-6202
Email: ali.er@wku.edu
Alternate Website: www.alioguzer.com
Laboratory: TCCW 27
Lab Phone: (270) 745-4429
Education
- Princeton University, Chemistry, Postdoctoral Scholar, 2014
- University of California, Irvine, Chemistry, Postdoctoral Scholar 2013
- Old Dominion University, Physics, PhD, 2011
- Ortadogu Teknik Universitesi, Physics, BS, 2004
Dr Er joined WKU Physics department as an assistant professor in 2014. He received his B.S. in 2004 from ODTU, Ankara Turkey and his PhD in physics from Old Dominion University under supervision of Prof Dr Hani Elsayed-Ali. After completing his PhD in 2011, he moved to University of California at Irvine Chemistry Department where worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Prof Dr Peter Rentzepis. After spending two years at UCI, he accepted another postdoctoral position at Princeton University Chemistry Department to work with Prof Dr Herschel Rabitz. He has several awards and a patent for his PhD and postdoctoral studies. He has also been appointed as associate professor by Higher Education Institute of Turkey in 2014. His research background includes pulsed laser deposition of quantum dot growth, time resolved x-ray diffraction, nano-scale heat transport in thin films, photodeactivation of pathogenic bacteria and viruses in human blood, optical discrimination of fluorescent proteins by using quantum control techniques, and selective bond breaking of semiconductor surfaces. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of engineering, chemistry, biology, and material science.