Hande Öztürk Receives 2017 Sidhu Award
January 17, 2018
Hande Öztürk, a postdoctoral research associate at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—has been awarded the 2017 Sidhu Award by the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society. This award honors researchers who have made significant contributions to crystallography or diffraction science in the early years of their career.
Öztürk received the Sidhu Award for her thesis work conducted at Columbia University. Her research, which used computational simulations to examine powder diffraction analyses of nanocrystals, showed that a classical statistical theory for estimating the intensities of diffraction spectrums is not applicable below a certain particle size in the nanometer regime. Öztürk was presented with the Sidhu Award and gave a lecture on her research at the 75th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference in October of 2017.
“My work was a response to a general theory that was first suggested by three important figures in the diffraction community, Harold P. Klug, Leroy Alexander, and Elizabeth Kummer,” Öztürk said. “I showed their theory from 1948 is not applicable for all particle sizes. Klug and Alexander were some of the first attendees of the Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, so it was an honor to respond to their work nearly 70 years later at the same conference.”
Currently a member of the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe group at NSLS-II, Öztürk is now working on a nanoimaging project that seeks to extend ptychography imaging methods to 3-D objects. The project is supported by Brookhaven’s Laboratory Directed Research & Development funds.
“My goal as a scientist is to find an accurate imaging characterization technique for nanomaterials,” Öztürk said.
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