Prof. HANDAN OLĞAR

She completed her undergraduate studies in 1997, her master's degree in 2000 and her doctorate in 2003 at Hacettepe University, Department of Physics Engineering. Prof. Olgar, who started her academic career as a research assistant at Hacettepe University Physics Engineering Department between 1998-2007, continued her associate professorship between 2008-2011 at Ankara University, Engineering Faculty, Physics Engineering Department and has working as a Professor in the same department since 2011. Prof. Dr. Handan Olgar won the Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellowship  in 2010 and worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Leipzig, Germany between 2011-2013 and 2017. She was also awarded the Loreal Young Scientist Award by LOREAL-UNESCO in 2005, the outstanding young scientist award TUBA-GEBIP in 2006, she was deemed worthy of the Humboldt Alumni Award, given to distinguished scientists from all over the world, on behalf of Turkey.  

Prof. Dr. Handan Olgar has been the Humboldt  Ambassador  Scientist for Turkey on behalf of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, since 2020. She is also the President of the Ankara Humboldt Fellows  Association.

She is married and a mother of two children.