Our Graduate Received Raymond Andrew Doctoral Thesis Award

Dr. Nergiz Şahin Solmaz, a graduate of ITU’s undergraduate programs in Electronics Engineering and Control and Automation Engineering (2014), and the Electronics Engineering master’s program (2017), has been honored with the Raymond Andrew Doctoral Thesis Award.

Dr. Nergiz Şahin Solmaz was awarded the Raymond Andrew Doctoral Thesis Award by Groupement AMPERE at the European Magnetic Resonance Congress (EUROMAR 2025), held in Finland from July 6 to 10, 2025.

Our graduate expressed the following upon receiving the award: “I owe this success to the knowledge I gained at ITU in integrated circuit design and magnetic field theory, as well as to the practical problem-solving skills instilled in me through my engineering education at ITU.”

Groupement AMPERE presents the Raymond Andrew Award annually to young scientists who have produced outstanding doctoral theses in the field of magnetic resonance, in honor of the pioneering work of Prof. Dr. Raymond Andrew.

Dr. Nergiz Şahin Solmaz completed her doctoral dissertation titled “Single Chip Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Microsystems” at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Giovanni Boero.

She completed her master’s degree in Electronics Engineering at ITU in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mustafa Berke Yelten. She graduated in 2014 from ITU’s undergraduate programs in Electronics Engineering and Control and Automation Engineering. Her undergraduate thesis in Electronics Engineering was supervised by Prof. Dr. Ali Toker, and her thesis in Control and Automation Engineering was completed under the supervision of Prof. Dr. İbrahim Eksin.

We congratulate our graduate on receiving this award.