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Professor Serim İlday leads the Simply Complex Lab at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). She previously held a professorship at Bilkent University since 2017 and completed her PhD at Middle East Technical University in 2014. Her research focuses on non-equilibrium physics, colloidal crystals, and complex systems, exemplified by her ERC-funded project on driven dissipative colloidal crystals mimicking living organisms.
- Educated at Middle East Technical University (PhD, 2014) and Bilkent University (postdoc)
- Current affiliation: Ruhr University Bochum
Her work spans condensed matter physics, non-equilibrium systems, and materials science, with implications for understanding complex dynamics in synthetic and biological systems.
- 2018 L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science (FWIS) Award
- 2019 European Research Council Starting Grant
- 2022 Turkish Physical Society 'International Special Honor' Award
- 2020 Fellow and board member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE)
- 2020 'Emerging Leader' in Condensed Matter Physics by Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
She is recognized for bridging fundamental research and interdisciplinary applications, with media and scientific community acclaim.
