A life filled with science, investigation, critical thinking, endless experiments, and manuscripts. We wish a wonderful birthday to our professor, and we hope he enjoys many more active years in academia. As the Dağ Group, we cannot thank him enough for guiding our paths and preparing us for life.

Prof. Dr. Ömer Dağ graduated from Middle East Technical University with a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1986, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the same university in 1989 and 1994, respectively. In 1991-1994, he was a Ph.D. exchange student with the Chemistry Department at University of Toronto. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Toronto, focusing on various porous materials, some of which were synthesized under microgravity in the space shuttle ENDEAVOR 77. Prof. Dağ joined Bilkent University in 1999 and is full professor in the Department of Chemistry.