Ilke Arslan

Dr. Ilke Arslan is the deputy associate laboratory director and senior science advisor for Physical Sciences and Engineering at Argonne National Laboratory. 

Prior to this, she served as director of the Nanoscience and Technology (NST) division and the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) from July 2020 to December 2024, and as interim NST and CNM director from 2019 to 2020. Dr. Arslan first joined Argonne in 2017 as group leader for electron and X-ray microscopy. From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a senior scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. From 2008 to 2017, she held a faculty position in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science department at the University of California, Davis, and from 2006 to 2008, she was a Truman Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. 

Dr. Arslan holds a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Davis, and has been honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She is a fellow of the Microscopy Society of America and has completed leadership training in both the Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program (2018), developed by the UChicago Booth School of Business, and the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (2019).

Her research interests include understanding the atomic, electronic, 3D, and time-dependent properties of materials, in support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission.