Ilker OzsahinAssoc. Prof. Dr. Ilker Ozsahin has vast experience with medical imaging technologies, including modelling, simulation, and image reconstruction, for example Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Positron Emission Mammography (PEM), Single Photon Emissin Computed Tomography (SPECT), and Compton Camera (CC). He has worked in a variety of scientific disciplines, including high-energy physics, solid-state physics, and medical imaging. He visited the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, to do research on carbon nanotube formation. One year as a PhD student on a PET project sponsored by the ERC was spent at Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain. In addition to his PhD studies, he served as a research assistant for six years in the Physics Department at ukurova University in Adana, Turkey. After receiving his PhD, he was awarded the International Postdoctoral Research Scholarship from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for one year. Harvard then supported his postdoctoral research. During his two-year stay in the United States, he worked on the development of a new generation of gamma cameras and image algorithms. In addition, he is investigating the effects of general anaesthesia on the brain function of small animals using a unique functional imaging paradigm that he initiated and contributed to at Harvard, as well as the mechanism of general anaesthesia, which is one of the greatest medical mysteries. Additionally, he is developing an innovative motion correction solution for patients receiving PET scans. Currently, he is a member of the biomedical engineering department of Near East University, and a board member of Operational Research in Healthcare in Near East University. Read More Read Less