Brief Bio

Professor Ortalan is an Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received two B.S. degrees — one in metallurgical and materials engineering and a second in mechanical engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Davis in 2010. Ortalan has been a postdoctoral scholar at Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at California Institute of Technology working with Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail and a visiting graduate student researcher at the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

His research interests include the development of ultrafast transmission electron microscopy and the application of ultrafast and in-situ TEM techniques to study phase and structural transformations, materials under extreme conditions, laser-induced dynamics of nanomaterials, and the application of high-resolution in-situ TEM for nanoscale materials employed as heterogeneous catalysts.