Ord. Prof. Niyazi Serdar Sarıçiftçi becomes the Laureate of the 2020 Selçuk Yaşar Award
This year’s laureate of the Selçuk Yaşar Award became Ord. Prof. Niyazi Serdar Sarıçiftçi, Director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry of Johannes Kepler University. Granted the title of professor ordinarius by the Austrian Government in 1996, Sarıçiftçi won this year’s Selçuk Yaşar Award, which was initiated to sustain the vision embraced by Mr. Selçuk Yaşar as a figure of firsts and principles that significantly contributed to the business, culture, education and sports in Turkey.
Initiated jointly by Yaşar University and the Sports and Education Foundation of Selçuk Yaşar to recognize and celebrate works of courageous individuals putting their best efforts for social benefit and for constructing a better future for Turkey, the second Selçuk Yaşar Award has been granted this year. The award ceremony, which took place at Çırağan Palace last year, was held online this year.
The theme for the 2020 award has been decided to be “Science”, one of the three notions “Science, Unity, and Success” that Selçuk Yaşar has deemed highly important all his life. This year’s laureate became Ord. Prof. Niyazi Serdar Sarıçiftçi, a world-renowned scientist with international studies in technology who is particularly known for his studies on “clean energy” and holds the first patent and publication on plastic organic solar cells.