Dr. Fatih Bay is the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Antalya Bilim University. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Kocaeli University in 2004, his M.Sc. in Physics from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2008, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2012. His academic focus is experimental particle physics, particularly neutrino physics.
Dr. Bay began working on neutrinos during his master's studies. In 2007, he contributed to the construction of the OPERA detector at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. In 2008, he joined the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics at the University of Bern, working at the Laboratory for High Energy Physics. During his Ph.D., he contributed to the T2K experiment in Japan, participating in the design, construction, data acquisition, software development, and data analysis of low-energy neutrino detectors. He also served as the project lead on behalf of the University of Bern.
From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, during which he contributed to detector development efforts for dark matter and neutrino experiments at CERN. Over the years, he has been involved in multiple international collaborations at CERN (Europe), KEK (Japan), and Fermilab (USA).
In 2015, he returned to Turkey with a TÜBİTAK "Returning Researchers" fellowship and joined METU's Physics Department as a senior researcher. He also served as a chief expert researcher at TÜBİTAK Space, contributing to the development of Turkey’s first indigenous communications satellite, TÜRKSAT 6A. During this period, he joined the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab and lectured part-time at METU's Department of Engineering Sciences. In the same year, he received his Associate Professorship in high-energy physics.
In 2018, he joined the University of Amsterdam’s Physics Department and conducted research at Nikhef and CERN on the DUNE experiment’s data acquisition systems. In 2020, he joined Antalya Bilim University and was promoted to Full Professor in 2021.
Dr. Bay has participated in several major neutrino experiments, including OPERA, T2K, MicroBooNE, and DUNE. In recognition of his contributions to neutrino physics via the T2K experiment, he and his team were awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016, alongside 2015 Nobel Laureates Prof. Dr. Arthur B. McDonald and Prof. Dr. Takaaki Kajita.
He is currently working on neutrino oscillations within the DUNE experiment, aiming to understand why matter dominates over antimatter in the universe. His work has contributed to the development of various detector technologies, including emulsion detectors, iron-plastic scintillator-based calorimeters, and liquid argon time projection chambers.
To date, Dr. Bay has received over 17,500 citations for his scientific publications, and his h-index is 59 (Google Scholar, May 2025). He currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Antalya Bilim University.
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