Collegium Helveticum
Switzerland
fellow
Tuncay Alan
2023-2024
Home institution
Monash University, AU
Country of origin (home institution)
Australia
Discipline(s)
Engineering; Science of matter
Theme(s)
Education & Science
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Tuncay Alan is senior lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Monash University. His research focuses on the interaction of micro/nanoscale resonators with flowing fluid media. He is currently leading the Dynamic Micro Devices Laboratory, which combines nanofabrication, acoustics and fundamental mechanics for controlled synthesis of materials and personalized drug delivery.
Tuncay received his PhD from Cornell University, US. He held postdoctoral positions at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and University College London, UK. In 2015, he spent six months as a visiting scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. As a senior fellow at the Collegium Helveticum, Tuncay will explore new technologies to examine the nucleation and early-stage growth of nanomaterials.
Research Project
Nucleation Illuminated
Nucleation and early-stage growth processes are the central, most important stages in the evolution of solid materials. These determine the size, structure, crystallinity, and homogeneity of the end products. However, despite being studied for more than a century, these very early stages of colloidal evolution are still not fully understood. This knowledge gap primarily arises from limited experimental access to immediately before and after nucleation events. The project will investigate new technologies to study what happens in the first micro to milliseconds of a nucleation event and explore how crystals grow.
Research Interests:
nucleation; synthesis of materials;