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Murat Cetinkaya is a researcher working on polymeric materials.

For further information, please download the academic CV (pdf).

 

Professional experience:

I am currently employed as a researcher at the chemical company BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany. I work on the modeling of polymer and surfactant based formulations.

 

    

Before joining BASF, I was a postdoctoral researcher at The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) with an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. I have continued my postdoctoral research "Multi-scale modeling of spider silk fibers" with Dr. Frauke Graeter.

It was a great pleasure to receive a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation during my postdoctoral period. Therefore, I advise all researchers to consider this great opportunity if they would like to visit Germany for science. On the other hand, I strongly recommend all my fellow colleagues to consider twice before working with HITS.

 

          

Prior to moving HITS, I had started my postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research (Max-Planck Institut fuer Metallforschung) in Stuttgart and at the Heidelberg University. I have worked with Dr. Frauke Graeter who has a joint collaboration between the Max-Planck Society and the Partner Institute of Computational Biology (PICB) in Shanghai, China. I would like to thank PICB and all my colleagues there for their welcoming atmosphere.

 

Education:

I have received my Ph.D. degree in 2008 in engineering science and mechanics with my work 'Synthesis and Characterization of Nanostructured Poly-P-Xylylene Films' (pdf) under the supervision of Professor Melik Demirel at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. I have also received my Ph.D. minor degree in computational science with the same study. 

I have received my M.Sc. degree in engineering science in 2005 with my computational work titled 'A Molecular Dynamics Study of Engineered Green Fluorescent Protein' (pdf) conducted at The Pennsylvania State University, USA under the supervision of Professor Melik Demirel.

 

I have received my B.Sc. degree in 2003 in mechanical engineering from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi (METU) in Ankara, Turkey.

 

Publication list:

  1. Cetinkaya M, Xiao S, Gräter F. Effects of Crystalline Subunit Size on Silk Fiber Mechanics: Soft Matter. 7:8142-8148, 2011 (pdf)

  2. Cetinkaya M, Xiao S, Gräter F. Bottom-up computational modeling of semicrystalline fibers: From atomistic to continuum scale. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13:10426-10429, 2011 (pdf)

  3. Cetinkaya M, Xiao S, Markert B, Stacklies W, Gräter F. Silk Fiber Mechanics From Multiscale Force Distribution Analysis. Biophysical Journal, 100:1298-1305, 2011. (pdf)

  4. Cheng S, Cetinkaya M, Gräter F. How sequence determines elasticity of disordered proteins. Biophysical Journal, 99:3863-3869, 2010. (pdf)

  5. Xiao S, Stacklies W, Cetinkaya M, Markert B, Gräter F. The mechanical response of silk crystalline units from force distribution analysis. Biophysical Journal, 96:3997-4005, 2009. (pdf)

  6. Cetinkaya M, Demirel MC. Bridging Experiments and Simulations in Oblique Angle Polymerization. Chemical Vapor Deposition, 15:1-5, 2009. (pdf)

  7. Kao P, Malvadkar N, Cetinkaya M, Wang H, Allara DL, Demirel MC. Surface Enhanced Raman Detection of Bacteria on Metalized Nanostructured Poly(p-xylylene) Films. Advanced Materials, 20:3562-3565, 2008. (pdf)

  8. Cetinkaya M, Malvadkar N, Demirel MC. Power-Law Scaling of Structured Poly(P-Xylylene) Films Deposited by Oblique Angle. Journal of Polymer Science Part B, 46:640-648, 2008. (pdf)

  9. Boduroglu S, Cetinkaya M, Dressick WJ, Singh A, Demirel MC. Controlling Wettability and Adhesion of Nanostructured Poly-(p-xylylene) Films. Langmuir, 23: 11391-11395, 2007. (pdf)

  10. Demirel MC, Cetinkaya M, Singh A, Dressick WJ. Non-Covalent Deposition of Nanoporous Ni Membranes on Spatially Organized Poly(p-xylylene) Film Templates. Advanced Materials, 19:4495-4499, 2007. (pdf)

  11. Cetinkaya M, Boduroglu S, Demirel MC. Growth of Nanostructured Thin Films of Poly(p-xylylene) Derivatives by Vapor Deposition. Polymer, 48 (14): 4130-4134, 2007. (pdf)

  12. Demirel MC, Boduroglu S, Cetinkaya M, Lakhtakia A. Spatially Organized Free-Standing Poly(P-xylene) Nanowires Fabricated by Vapor Deposition. Langmuir, 23: 5861-5863, 2007. (pdf)

  13. Cetinkaya M, Zeytun A, Sofo J, Demirel MC. How Do Insertions Affect Green Fluorescent Protein? Chemical Physics Letters, 419: 48-54, 2005. (pdf)

 

For further information about Murat Cetinkaya, please download the academic CV (pdf).
 

 

Prepared by Murat CETINKAYA, 2012