Dr. Ali Sebetci

 Office  : 126 Chemical Sciences
University of California, Riverside
Phone : (951) 827-3791
Fax     : (951) 827-4713
Email  : sebetci (at) ucr.edu
 


"If a thought is true, it belongs to all whoever can comprehend it.
If it is wrong, it is meaningless to take pride in 'thinking' of it.
A true thought cannot be 'new', since 'truth' is not something produced by human intelligence.
The 'true' exists without depending on us and what we need is just to understand it."

Rene Guenon

EXPERIENCE
University of California, Riverside USA
Postdoc (Sep. 2008 - present)

Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden GERMANY
Guest Scientist / Postdoc (Mar. 2007 - Aug. 2008)

Cankaya University, Ankara TURKEY
Asst. Prof. Dr. (Feb. 2005 - Feb. 2007)
Instructor (Sep. 2000 - Jan. 2005)

Private Ari College, Ankara TURKEY
Physics Teacher (Sep. 1999 - Aug. 2000)

Private Fatih College, Istanbul TURKEY
Physics Teacher (Feb. 1994 - Aug. 1999)

 

EDUCATION
Middle East Technical University, Ankara TURKEY
Ph.D. in Physics (Sep. 1999 - Jan. 2004)
GPA : 3.69 / 4.00
Thesis Title: The Structure, Energetics and Melting Behavior of Free Platinum Clusters

Bogazici University, Istanbul TURKEY
M.S. in Physics (Feb. 1996 - Apr. 1999)
Thesis Title: Relativistic Two Body Problem and Fourier Analysis on Lorentz Group.
B.S. in Teaching Physics (Sep. 1989 - Feb. 1994)

Kayseri Science High School, Kayseri TURKEY
High School Diploma (Sep. 1986 - Jun. 1989)

 

FIELDS of INTEREST

 Computer Simulations of Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Computational Chemical Physics and Density Functional Theory
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 
 

PUBLICATIONS

11) "Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic Properties of the Monometallofullerene Gd@C82: Theory" A. Sebetci, M. Richter (submitted)

10)"Does Spin-Orbit Coupling Effect Favor Planar Structures for Small Platinum Clusters?" A. Sebetci, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 921 (2009)

9) "Cobalt Clusters (Con , n ≤ 6) and Their Anions" A. Sebetci, Chem. Phys. 354, 196 (2008)

8) "Free Standing Double Walled Boron Nanotubes" A. Sebetci, E. Mete, I. Boustani, J. Phys. Chem. Solids 69, 2004 (2008)

7) "A Density Functional Study of Bare and Hydrogenated Platinum Clusters" A. Sebetci, Chem. Phys. 331, 9 (2006)

6) "Thermodynamics of Small Platinum Clusters" A. Sebetci, Z.B. Guvenc, H. Kokten, Comp. Mater. Sci. 35, 192 (2006)

5) "Global Minima of AlN, AuN and PtN, N ≤ 80, Clusters Described by Voter-Chen Version of Embedded-Atom Potentials" A. Sebetci, Z.B. Guvenc, Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 13, 683 (2005)

4) "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Melting Behavior of 12-, 13-, 14-Atom Icosahedral Platinum Clusters" A. Sebetci, Z.B. Guvenc, Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 12, 1131 (2004)

3) "Global Minima for Free PtN Clusters (N=22-56): A Comparison Between the Searches with a Molecular Dynamics Approach and a Basin-Hopping Algorithm" A. Sebetci, Z.B. Guvenc, E. Phys. J. D 30(1), 71 (2004)

2) "Phase Changes in Icosahedral 54-, 55-, 56-Atom Platinum Clusters" A. Sebetci, Z.B. Guvenc, H. Kokten, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 15(7), 981 (2004)

1) "Energetics and Structures of Small Clusters, PtN, N=2-21" A. Sebetci, Z.B. Guvenc, Surf. Sci. 525, 66 (2003)

 

CONFERENCES ATTENDED

APS Meeting, 16-20 March 2009, Pittsburgh, USA

ICCS 2008, 25-29 May 2008, Warnemunde, Rostock, Germany: International Conference on Clusters at Surfaces, "Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic Properties of the Monometallofullerene Gd@C82"

NANO-TR-III, 11-14 June 2007, Ankara, Turkey: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2007, "An Ab Initio Study for Structural and Electronic Properties of Conductive Double Walled Boron Nanotubes"

NANO-TR-II, 3-5 May 2006, Ankara, Turkey: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2006, "A Density Functional Study of Bare and Hydrogenated Platinum Clusters"

NHA Annual Hydrogen Conference, 12-16 March 2006, Long Beach, California, USA: Global Progress Toward Clean Energy, "Geometrical and Electronic Structure and Energetics Of Hydrogenated Platinum Clusters: A Density Functional Study"

TAMC4, 24-28 April 2004, Toulouse, France: Theory of Atomic and Molecular Clusters, "Thermodynamics of Small Platinum Clusters"

APHYS-2003, 14-18 October 2003, Badajoz, Spain: First International Meeting on Applied Physics, "Melting Behaviour of Icosahedral 54-, 55-, 56-Atom Platinum Clusters"

ECOSS 22, 7-12 September 2003, Prague, Czech Republic: European Conference on Surface Science, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Melting Behaviour of 12-, 13-, 14-Atom Icosahedral Platinum Clusters"

Mansfield College, 9-10 April 2003 Oxford, UK: Modeling of Materials, Atomistic and Ab Initio Approaches, "The Structure of Small Platinum Clusters"

NATO ASI, 09-20 September 2002, Varna Bulgaria: Computer Simulation of Surfaces and Interfaces, "Global minimum structures, energetics and phase changes of small clusters: PtN, N=2-21, 54-56"
 

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