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National and International Activities - Naci Balkan
 

2013-15 External Examiner for MSc Course in the Department of Physics, University of Hull
   
2014 Scientific Programme, Steering and Prizes Committee "International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices" (ICSNN-2014), Savanah, USA
   
2013-14 Assessor Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding
   
2012 Scientific Programme, steering and prizes Committee "International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices" (ICSNN-2012), Dresden, Germany
   
2012 Co-Chair of the symposium on "Novel Gain Materials and Devices based on Nitrogen and Bishmuth containing III-V Materials", EMRS International Conference, Strasbourg, France
   
2012 Assessor Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding
   
2011 Co-chair, ICEEE-2011: International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering - World Congress on Engineering: to be held on 6-8 July, London
   
2011 Co-chair of the symposium on "Dilute III-V Alloy Semiconductors for Future Photonics (DILSEM-PHOTON)" ICTON-2011 conference: 27-30 June 2011 Stockholm, Sweden
   
2011 EC Photovoltaic materials committee: "European Strategic Energy Technology Plan", 15 March, Brussels, Belgium
   
2010-11 Assessor for Greece Ministry of Education; Archimedes-III and Thales Research Proposals
   
2010 Co-chair of the symposium on "Novel Gain Materials and devices based on Nitrogen containing III-V Materials", EMRS International Conference, 7-11 June 2010, Strasbourg, France
   
2010 Scientific Programme Committee "International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices" (ICSNN-2010), Beijing, China
   
2010 Co-Chair, ICEEE-2010: International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering - World Congress on Engineering: imperial college, London, UK, 30 June-2 July
   
2010 Co-chair of the symposium on "Novel Gain Materials and devices based on nitrogen containing III-V Materials", EMRS International Conference, Strasbourg, France
   
2010 EPSRC College Member
   
2009 Reviewer to ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
   
2009 Scientific Programme Committee, International Conference on "Emerging Trends and Novel Materials in Photonics" 7-9 October, Delphi, Greece
   
2009 Scientific Programme Committee, International Conference on Nanostructures and Nanosystems (NANOMAT-09) 10-13 August Istanbul, Turkey
   
2009-12  Chairman of COST Action MP0805 "Novel Gain Materials and Devices Based on III-V-N Compounds"
   
2008 Organisation Committee COST Training School "Nanoscale & Ultrafast Photonics" 18-23 March, San Michele, Calabria, Italy
   
2008 Assessment Committee of Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
   
2008 Assessment Panel of Singapore Science & Engineering Research Council (ASTAR)
   
2008 Member of IOP Fellowship Panel
   
2008 Co-Chair, ICEEE-2008: International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering - World Congress on Engineering: London, UK, 2-4 July
   
2008 Institutional Co-ordinator for The Rank Prize Funds
   
2008-2011 Elected to the Executive Committee of European Materials Research Society (E-MRS)
 
2008 International Advisory Committee of Research Workshop "Recent Advances in Low Dimensional Structures and Devices" Nottingham, UK (7-9 April)
 
2008 Scientific Programme Committee "International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices" (ICSNN-2008), Brazil
 
2007 PhD External examiner, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
2007-09 Member of EPSRC steering committee for "Materials Science" Research Project, Cambridge University, UK
 
2007 PhD external examiner, Bristol University, UK
 
2007 Member of the review panel for the Finland Academy and Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering
 
2007 Co-Chair, EMRS Symposium F: Novel Gain Materials and Devices Based on III-N-V Compounds, Strasbourg, France, 28 May -1 June
 
2007 Co-chair, ICEEE-2007: International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering-World Congress on Engineering: Imperial College, London, UK, 2-4 July
 
2007 EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP-7) Member of Experts for evaluation of project applications and monitoring of the programme
 
2006 Assessor for British Council UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI)
 
2006 Symposium organizer, EU-COST 288 "Novel Gain Materials and Devices", Vilnius, Lithuania, 4-5 October
 
2006 Chairman, "International Conference on Superlattices, Nano-Structures and Nano-Devices" (ICSNN-2006) International Conference, Istanbul
 
2006 EMRS member of the board of delegates
 
2006 Symposium organizer, EU-COST 288 Workshop "Novel Gain Materials and Devices", Nottingham, 22-23 June
 
2005 Symposium organizer, COST 288 Workshop "Novel Gain materials and Devices", St. Andrews, Scotland, 3-4 August
 
2004 Member of Scientific Programme Committee, SPIE's Second International Symposium on Micro technologies for the New Millennium, Seville, Spain, 9-11 May
 
2004 Symposium organizer, EU-COST 288 Workshop "Dilute Nitrides and Quantum Dots", Rome, 17-19 October
 
2004 Member of Scientific Programme Committee: International conference on "Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices" (ICSNN-2002), Cancun, Mexico
 
2004 Co-chair of the symposium on "Dilute nitride and related mismatched semiconductor alloys", EMRS International Conference, Strasbourg, France
 
2003 EPSRC Joint Photonics Panel member
 
2003 PhD external thesis evaluation referee, Gulbarga University, India
 
2003 Symposium organizer, EU-COST 288 Workshop "Novel Gain materials and Devices", Athens, 2-4 June
 
2003 Essex University coordinator and selector for Rank Prize Funds vacation studentship in optoelectronics/optics
 
2003 EU-COST 288: Chairman of Work Group 1, "Novel Gain Materials and Fabrication techniques"
 
2003 PhD External examiner, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
 
2003 Elected fellow to Institute of Physics (IOP)
 
2003 MSc external examiner, University of Hull, UK
 
2002-2004 Elected member of EPSRC Review College
 
2002 Director of the International Research Workshop on "Physics and Technology of Dilute Nitrides for Optical Communications", Istanbul, Turkey
 
2002 Member of Scientific Programme Committee "International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices" (ICSNN-2002), Toulouse, France
 
2001 Department of Trade and Industry-nominated UK representative in EU- COST 288 Management Committee
 
2001 Assessor for Professorial Promotions, Princess Sumaya University College of Technology, Jordan
 
1998-1999 Director of European Commission-funded Summer Schools on "Low Dimensional Semiconductors for Optoelectronic Devices and Communication Systems" held at University of Essex (UK) and University of Aveiro (Portugal)
 
1998 Co-director, International Research Workshop on Low Dimensional Semiconductors: Physics and Devices, Antalya, Turkey
 
1994-98 Coordinator and Member of Scientific Committees of International Workshops in Low Dimensional Structures and Devices, organized jointly by University of Essex (UK), University of Hacettepe and Istanbul University (Turkey)
 
1993-94 Director and Coordinator of the EU-COMETT courses on "Optoelectronics: Materials, Devices, and Systems" held at University of Essex (UK), and University of Eindhoven (Netherlands)
 
1992 PhD external examiner, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
 
1992  Director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "NDR and Instabilities in 2D Semiconductors", Lucca, Italy