Curriculum Vitea

EDUCATION

Degree Institution Year of Graduation
Ph.D. METU, Department of Physics 2004
M.Sc. METU, Department of Physics 1998
B.Sc. METU, Department of Physics 1996

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

2005-present: NEU, Faculty of Engineering; Assist. Prof. Dr
2004-2005: NEU, Faculty of Engineering; Dr
2008 -2009: NEU, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Vice Chairperson
2005 – 2011 & Sep, 2014 –present: NEU, Faculty of Engineering; Physics courses Coordinator
1999-2004: Middle East Technical University, Teaching Assistant

 

Courses Taught

NEPHAR 103 (Physics, Faculty of Pharmacy)
DH 110 (Physics, Faculty of Dentistry, in Turkish Language)
FİZ 151 (Physics, Faculty of Health Sciences, in Turkish Language)
PHY 101 (General Physics I, Faculty of Engineering)
PHY 102 (General Physics I, Faculty of Engineering)
EE 216 (Electromagnetic Theory; Faculty of Engineering)
EE 241 (Electrical Material,; Faculty of Engineering)
BME 350 (Radiology Physics; Department of Biomedical Engineering; Faculty of Engineering)
FİZ 101 (General Physics I, Faculty of Engineering, in Turkish Language)
FİZ 102 (General Physics I, Faculty of Engineering, in Turkish Language)
ELE 216 (Electromagnetic Theory; Faculty of Engineering, in Turkish Language)

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Research assistant in the Physics Department of Middle East Technical University

Developed various computer programs, based on exciton physics and Förster mechanism. These programs were used to run numerical experiments to investigate the structure-function relationship and energy transfer processes in the various photosynthetic Light-Harvesting complexes including Chlorophyll protein 29 and Light-Harvesting complex II of green plants, Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex of green sulfur bacteria Cholorobium tepidum and Prosthecoclaris aestuarii and Chlorosomes.

VISITING RESEARCHER: 7th May – 7th August, 2001, Vrije University, Amsterdam
Three months visit to Laboratory of the Biophysics Group at the Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, under the European Science Foundation (ESF)  “Femtochemistry and Femtobiology-ULTRA Programme”, in the year 2001. During this visit, some experimental techniques have been learnt and absorption, linear
dichroism, circular dichroism, polarized fluorescence and fluorescence line narrowing spectral measurements have been performed on a specific light-harvesting complex from green sulphur bacterium. The complex studied was the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex of Cholorobium tepidum.

 

MASTER THESIS TITLE:

· E. İ. İşeri (M.Sc., June 1998, METU), “Electronic excited states and excitation transfer
kinetics in the FMO protein of the photosynthetic bacterium Prosthecochloris aestuarii at
low temperatures”.

 

DOCTORATE THESIS TITLE:

· E. İ. İşeri (Ph.D., June 2004, METU), “Exciton simulations of the optical properties of
several photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes”.

 

Physics Laboratory Manual and work book Prepared and published
G. Buğrahan and E. İ. İşeri, “Physics Laboratory manual and work book”, Faculty of Engineering, NEU, 2005.

Publications in Process

Ümit İhan, Kaan Uyar, Erkut İ. İşeri, “Web Accessibility of the Cyprus Island Higher Education Institution Libraries”, 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice in Modern Computing (TPMC 2018), 18-20 July 2018, Madrid, Spain (accepted).

Erkut İ. İşeri, Kaan Uyar, Umit Ilhan, “Forecasting Measles in European Union by using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System”, Second International Biomedical Engineering Congress 2018 (IBMEC-2018), 24-27 May 2018, North Cyprus (accepted)

 

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNALS (IN COVERAGE OF
SSCI/SCI-EXPANDED AND AHCI):

E. İ. İşeri, K. Uyar and Ü. İlhan, “Accessibility of the Cyprus Island Municipal Websites”, 9th Int. Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN 2017), Pages: 72 – 76, 16-17 Sept. 2017, IEEE Xplore: 19 March 2018. DOI: 10.1109/CICN.2017.8319359

E. İ. İşeri, K. Uyar and Ü. İlhan, “The Accessibility of Cyprus Islands’ Higher Education Institution Websites”, Procedia Computer Science, 120, 967-974, 2017.

· H. Yıldırım, E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “A quantitative analysis of exciton
superhyperchromism in porphyrin J-/H-aggregates”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 391, 302-307
2004.
· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “Chlorophyll transition dipole moment orientations and
pathways for flow of excitation energy among the chlrophylls in the major plant antenna
LHCII”, Eur. Biophys. J., 30, 344-353, 2001.
· E. İ. İşeri, D. Albayrak and D. Gülen, “Electronic excited states of the CP29 antenna
complex of green plants: a model based on exciton calculations”, J. of Biol. Phys., 26,
321-339, 2000.
· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “Electronic excited states and excitation transfer kinetics in the
Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein of the photosynthetic bacterium Prosthecochloris
aestuarii at low temperatures”, Eur. Biophys. J., 28/3, 243-253, 1999.

 

PUBLICATIONS IN NATIONAL REFEREED JOURNALS:

· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “Absorption and linear dichroism of the Fenna-MatthewsOlson pigment-protein complex of Prosthecochloris aestuarii: An exciton model”,
Doğa-Tr. J. of Physics, 21, 1129-1140, 1997.

 

BULLETING PRESENTED IN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC MEETINGS AND
PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS BOOKS:

· E. İ. İşeri, H. Yıldırım, and D. Gülen, “Antenna size dependent hyperchromism of the Qy
absorption band of linear and tubular BChl c aggregates”, ESF “Femtochemistry and
Femtobiology” Ultra Programme Workshop on Femtosecond Dynamics in
Photosynthetic Light-harvesting Complexes, October 9-13 2002, Belek, Antalya, Turkey.
· E. İ. İşeri, M. Wendling, M. A. Palacios, R. van Grondelle, T. J. Aartsma, S. I. E. Vulto,
D. Gülen and H. van Amerongen, “Spectroscopic measurements and spectral simulations
of the FMO protein from Chlorobium tepidum”, ESF “Femtochemistry and
Femtobiology” Ultra Programme Workshop on Femtosecond Dynamics in
Photosynthetic Light-harvesting Complexes, October 9-13 2002, Belek, Antalya, Turkey.
· H. van Amerongen, M. Wendling, M. A. Przyjalgowski, M. A. Palacios, R. van
Grondelle, T. J. Aartsma, S. I. E. Vulto, E. İ. İşeri, D. Gülen., “The relation between
structure and polarized spectroscopy of the FMO complex of Prosthecochloris aestuarii
and Chlorobium tepidum “, EMBO Workshop on Green and Heliobacteria, April 19-
23, 2002, Passau, Germany.

· A.S. Taisova, D. Gülen and E. İ. İşeri, V.A. Drachev, T.A. Cherenkova, Z.G.Fetisova,
“Antenna-size dependent hyperchromism of the Qy absorption band of the chlorosomal
oligomeric bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c antenna of the green bacteria, Satellite Meeting
on the Evolution of Photosynthesis, XIIth International Congress of Photosynthesis,
August 25-28 2001, Heron Island, Australia.
· Z.G.Fetisova, A.S. Taisova, D. Gülen, E. İ. İşeri, “Antenna-size dependent
hyperchromism of the Qy absorption band of the chlorosomal oligomeric
bacteriochlorophyll c antenna of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus, July
2001, Voronez, Russia.
· A.S. Taisova, D. Gülen and E. İ. İşeri, V.A. Drachev, T.A. Cherenkova, Z.G.Fetisova,
“Antenna-size dependent hyperchromism of the Qy absorption band of the chlorosomal
oligomeric bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c antenna of the green bacteria, XIIth International
Congress of Photosynthesis, August 18-23 2001, Brisbane, Australia.
· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “Structure-spectroscopy relationship in the LHCII: a model
study on the chlorophyll transition dipole moment orientations and flow of excitation
energy among the chlorophylls”, XIIth International Congress of Photosynthesis, August
18-23 2001, Brisbane, Australia.
· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “Structure-spectroscopy relationship in the LHCII: a model
study on the chlorophyll transition dipole moment orientations and flow of excitation
energy among the chlorophylls”, LHC2001, Satellite Workshop to the XIIth International
Congress of Photosynthesis, August 15-18 2001, Surfers Paradise, Australia.
· E. İ. İşeri, D. Albayrak and D. Gülen, “Chlorophyll transition dipole moment
orientations and pathways for flow of excitation energy among the chlrophylls in CP29
and LHCII”, 1 st General Meeting of the ESF/ULTRA Programme, October 23-25 2000,
Coimbra, Portugal.
· E. İ. İşeri, D. Albayrak and D. Gülen, “Electronic excited states of the CP29 and LHCII
antenna complexes of green plants”, Photophysics and Photochemistry 2000, October 18-
21 2000, Costa do Estoril, Portugal.
· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “Electronic excited states and excitation transfer kinetics in the
Fenna-Matthews-Olson complexes of photosynthetic green sulphur bacteria at low
temperatures”, Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXI, September 5-10 1999,
Ankara, Turkey.
· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “Electronic excited states and excitation transfer kinetics in the
Fenna-Matthews-Olson complexes of photosynthetic green sulphur bacteria at low
temperatures”, Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXI, September 5-10 1999,
Ankara, Turkey.
· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, “Low-temperature excitation transfer in the FMO complex.
Simulations”, XIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, August 17-22 1998,
Budapest, Hungary.

· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen “Low-temperature electronic excitation transfer in the FMO
complex. Simulations”, ESF International Workshop on Light-Harvesting Systems,
August 14-16 1998, Tata, Hungary.
· E. İ. İşeri, H. van Amerongen and D. Gülen, “Excited state structure and subpicosecond
excitation dynamics in FMO complex from the green photosynthetic bacterium
Prosthecochloris aestuarii: simulations of the absorption difference spectra at low
temperatures”, European Science Foundation Workshop on Green and Heliobacteria,
August 31 -September 4 1997, Urbino, Italy.
· E. İ. İşeri and D. Gülen, in: Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, vol. I, pp. 181 -184,
G. Garab and J. Pusztai (eds.), “Low-temperature excitation transfer in the FMO
complex. Simulations”, Kluwer 1998.