He received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, in Physics (1996). He worked as a post-doctoral associate at FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1996-1997). He received Werner von Siemens Excellence Award (2003) and TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Science) Young Scientist Award (2001). He has 34 journal publications. His research interests focus on surfaces, interfaces, thin films and characterization of nano-structured materials. Dr. Demirel is involved, among others, in EU-COST-D19 Nano-Chemistry project. His labs have various surface & thin film characterization equipments.