Prof. Dr. Ali Oguz Er is an assistant professor at Western Kentucky University. He obtained his B.S. in Physics from Ortadogu Teknik Universitesi in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Physics from Old Dominion University in 2011. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he moved to the University of California at the Irvine Chemistry Department, where he worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Dr. Peter Rentzepis. After spending two years at UCI, he accepted another postdoctoral position at Princeton University's Chemistry Department, working with Prof. Dr. Herschel Rabitz. He has several awards and a patent for his Ph.D. and postdoctoral studies. He was also appointed as an associate professor by the Higher Education Institute of Turkey in 2014. His research interests include pulsed laser deposition of quantum dot growth, time-resolved X-ray diffraction, nano-scale heat transport in thin films, the photodeactivation of pathogenic bacteria and viruses in human blood, the optical discrimination of fluorescent proteins by using quantum control techniques, and selective bond breaking of semiconductor surfaces.
