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Interviewed at KAIST Podcast for Jeehye's work
Mik Fanguy interviewed Cafer for Jeehye's paper on the water treatment by COP-99. The interview is now online at KAIST Podcast with additional coverage by Professor Mik Fanguy of the College of Liberal Arts and Convergence Science, and Scientific Communicator Dan Kopperud. You can listen to the podcast here or you can visit the KAIST Podcast page to view all. You should also subscribe the feed on your mobile phone!Cafer was profiled by Chemistry World
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| Click here to read the whole story by Jennifer Newton |
How did you get into chemistry?
My father is a teacher but he always wanted to be a professor. I think someone said you usually follow your parents’ dreams rather than their current jobs.I always knew I wanted to be a professor. My interest in chemistry goes back to my high school years. I represented Turkey twice at the International Chemistry Olympiad. Of course my interest in chemistry started before that. One of my mentors at high school got me interested in chemistry because he taught how it is related to life in general. He spoke of daily life items like soap, shampoo, fabric, dyes and drugs. He said everything is chemistry. So I thought – if everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry. I saw I could make an immediate impact if I studied chemistry. I still keep that in mind – that I need to make an immediate impact on people’s lives.
Before the move I was in the US for about 10 years. I got my PhD in Texas at Rice University and was a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My postdoc advisor, Galen Stucky, had a very distinguished position here at KAIST in Korea and he came here briefly to do some teaching and other things. Galen is no longer involved here but his previous involvement helped me to think this position was a possibility. I came here and I realised it’s a great environment with highly motivated people.
C&EN coverage for Prof. Yavuz
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| click to read the whole story by Linda Wang |
"MEANWHILE, in South Korea, Turkish chemist Cafer T. Yavuz is designing new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to address environmental challenges.
Yavuz represented Turkey in 1997 in Montreal and in 1998 in Melbourne, Australia, winning a silver and bronze medal, respectively. He is now an assistant professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST).
Times Higher Education interviewed for Elsevier spam email
Finding me from the blog post I wrote in May, Times Higher Education included my comments in their story about the recent Elsevier spam email. Click here to read the full story.
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Aktuel interviewed for the recent Arsenic contraversy in Turkey
The popular Turkish magazine, Aktuel interviewed me once again but this time for my comments on the recent Arsenic problem in Ankara, Turkey's capital city. Click here to reach to the article.
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