Birol Ozturk is an associate professor and the graduate coordinator in the Physics and Engineering Physics Department at Morgan State University (MSU). Dr. Ozturk received his B.Sc. in Physics and a Teaching Physics Certificate in 1999 from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. He received an M.S. degree in Science and a Ph.D. in Photonics from Oklahoma State University, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. After working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Syracuse and Northeastern Universities, he joined MSU in 2014 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Ozturk has been serving as the coordinator of the Extreme Science Internship Program at MSU since 2017. His current research interests are on quantum sensing with defects in wide band gap semiconductors, Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) electromagnetic simulations, and Directed Electrochemical Nanowire Assembly (DENA) for fabrication of nanoscale electrodes. Dr. Ozturk’s research group will focus on using defects in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) in quantum sensing applications as part of their participation in the Center of Excellence for Advanced Electro-Photonics (CAEP) with 2D Materials at MSU. As an experimentalist, Dr. Ozturk has extensive experience in nanotechnology, photovoltaics, plasmonics, photonic crystals, and electromagnetic simulations. He has authored over 30 journal and conference publications and three patents.