Alphan Sennaroğlu is the Dean of College of Sciences and is a professor in the Departments of Physics and Electrical-Electronics Engineering at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1988, 1990, and 1994, respectively. He founded the Koç University Laser Research Laboratory in 1994 and has led its research activities since then. Alphan Sennaroğlu's research interests include solid-state lasers, ultrafast/femtosecond optics, photonic applications and spectroscopy of nano particles, spectroscopy of novel laser and amplifier media, and nonlinear optics. He was a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 2002-2003 and 2009-2010 academic years, and in the summers of 2005-2008. In February 2010, he served as the Program Chair of the Advanced Solid-State Photonics Meeting (Optical Society of America) in San Diego, CA. In 2004 and 2006, he was the program chair of the Solid-State Lasers and Amplifiers Conference during the Photonics Europe meeting which took place in Strasbourg, France. He has also served as a member of the Technical Program Committees for CLEO-America:Ultrafast Optics (2005-2007), CLEO-Europe: Ultrafast Optics (2005, 2009), Photonics Europe: Solid-State Lasers (2004, 2006, and 2008), and ASSP-Advanced Solid-State Photonics (2008-2009). In December 2005, Alphan Sennaroğlu was elected as associate member to the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA). He is a Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and OSA (Optical Society of America), and a member of SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering), Optics Committee of Turkey, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. In 1999, he founded the Leos Turkish Chapter of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society and served as the Chapter President between 1999 and 2003.