Ali Akman

Education

Undergraduate Institution: Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)

Graduate Institution (M.S.):  Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)

Biography

Ali received his B.S. and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), where his master's research with Emre Bukusoglu focused on colloidal self-assembly at cholesteric liquid crystal interfaces. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, advised by Paul Nealey and Juan de Pablo, working on the design of block copolymers for directed self-assembly (DSA) applications. Since June 2026, he has been a visiting graduate student in the Hawker and Bates groups at UCSB.