Ilke Arslan | |
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 Arslan in 2013 | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Davis University of Illinois Chicago |
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| Institutions | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory University of California, Davis University of Cambridge Argonne National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories |
| Thesis | Atomic scale characterization of threading dislocations in GaN (2004) |
Ilke Arslan is a Turkish Americanmicroscopist who is Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials and the Nanoscience and Technology division atArgonne National Laboratory. She was awarded thePresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2009 and appointed to the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program in 2019.
Arslan was an undergraduate student at theUniversity of Illinois Chicago, with a major in physics and a minor inSpanish.[1][2] She spent several months of her undergraduate study studying inSpain.[3] Arslan holds a doctorate in physics from theUniversity of California, Davis.[4] She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at theUniversity of Cambridge. Arslan was supported by theRoyal Society and theNational Science Foundation. She eventually moved to theSandia National Laboratories, where she worked as a Truman Fellow. Her work considered nano materials for energy and hydrogen storage.[4] She worked onelectron tomography, which she believed could help elucidate structure-property-activity relationships.[4][5]
In 2008, Arslan joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis.[6] After meetingBarack Obama at the ceremony for thePresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010, she became increasingly interested in big science that could only be performed at National Laboratories.[1] She was appointed a senior scientist at thePacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2011, where she investigated the morphological changes that occur when zeolites are used inFischer–Tropsch processes.[7] In particular, she explored how the distribution of cobalt changes as materials are reduced. She showed that some cobalt can move several nanometers onto the outside of the alumina support.[7]
In 2017, Arslan joined theArgonne National Laboratory.[8] Her first job involved working as a group leader inelectron microscopy, with a particular focus on 3Din situ imaging.[9] She was made Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials in 2020.[1]
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