Dr. Gonca Ozkan is a researcher at the Nanotechnology Research Center in Bilkent University. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1996, at the Engineering Sciences Department of the Middle East Technical University at Ankara, Turkey. She has worked as post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory for Computational Geodynamics in Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Her research is on the area of theoretical modeling of propagation of electromagnetic waves in artificial electromagnetic materials, nanoplasmonic structures and electromagnetic band gap materials. She has 10 publications in refereed journals. She is now working as projects coordinator at Bilkent University Nanotechnology Research Center.