| Yigit Altay | Systems Chemistry | | 2008 | 2013 | Engin Umut Akkaya (research assistant) |
| Abdullah Atalar | | | | | |
| Koray Aydin | nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials | Physics | 2002 | 2008 | Ekmel Ozbay (grad student) |
| Atilla Aydınlı | Optical spectroscopy of semiconductors, photonic devices, nanocrystals, plasmonics, MEMS, solid-laser interactions | | | | |
| Hümeyra Çağlayan | Metamaterials, plasmonics, quantum nanophotonics | Department of Physics | | 2010 | Ekmel Ozbay (grad student) |
| Kadir Çeven | | | | | |
| Salim Ciraci | | | | | |
| Hilmi Volkan Demir | Semiconductor LED lighting, nanocrystal optoelectronics, energy transfer phenomena and excitonics, metal nanoparticle and nanowire plasmonics, RF wireless sensors, RF bioimplants, medical devices | | | | |
| Ahmet Gökalp | | | | | |
| Muhammed H Gunes | Condensed matter physics | Physics | 2021 | 2022 | Oguz Gulseren (grad student) |
| Mehmet Selim Hanay | NEMS, Nanotechnology, Mass Spectrometry | | | | |
| Balázs Hetényi | Condensed matter physics, statistical physics | | | | |
| Fatih Ömer Ilday | physics, optics, nonlinear science | | | | |
| Seymur Jahangirov | | Institute of Material Science and Nanotechnology | 2006 | 2012 | Salim Ciraci (grad student) |
| Aşkın Kocabaş | Whole brain imaging, synthetic neural networks, controllability of complex neural networks | Department of Physics | 2003 | 2008 | Atilla Aydınlı (grad student) |
| Hayrettin Koymen | | | | | |
| Özgür Esat Müstecaplıoğlu | Quantum optomechanics, non-Markovian quantum thermodynamics, atomic and molecular physics | Department of Physics | | 1999 | Alexander S. Shumovsky (grad student) |
| M. Ö. Oktel | | | | | |
| Selim Olcum | Micro- and nanodevices, microfluidics, single-cell biophysics, personalized medicine in cancer | Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering | 2005 | 2010 | Abdullah Atalar (grad student), Hayrettin Koymen (grad student) |
| Ekmel Ozbay | | | | | |
| Cuneyt Sahin | Spintronics, quantum materials | | | | |
| Omer Salihoglu | Molecular Physics, Solid State Physics, Device Physics, Graphene Based Devices, Li-ion Batteries, LiS Batteries | | | | |
| Alexander S. Shumovsky | Quantum optics, quantum field theory | | | | |
| Sefaattin Tongay | | Materials Science and Engineering | 2002 | 2005 | Salim Ciraci (grad student) |
| F. Nur Ünal | Condensed matter physics | | 2012 | 2016 | M. Ö. Oktel (grad student) |
| Jagadeesh Babu Veluru | | | 2013 | 2014 | Tamer Uyar (post-doc) |
| Sesha Vempati | | | 2013 | 2015 | Tamer Uyar (post-doc) |