Description: Dr. Darici has performed many important leadership, teaching, and service roles throughout her thirty-two-year career at FIU. Dr. Darici is an educator, scientist, activist and a trailblazer whose achievements have been recognized and awarded globally, nationally, and locally here at FIU
Dr. Yesim Darici, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and STEMM, Director of Women in STEM initiative, CASE, Professor of Physics.
Dr. Darici has performed many important leadership, teaching, and service roles throughout her thirty-two-year career at FIU. Dr. Darici is an educator, scientist, activist and a trailblazer whose achievements have been recognized and awarded globally, nationally, and locally here at FIU. Her awards and recognitions include the “In the Company of Women” Outstanding Women in Science and Technology Award, FIU President’s Access and Equity Award, Florida International University Foundation “Excellence in Teach
Dr. Darici’s research focuses on understanding the structure of surfaces at the atomic level and their interactions with the outside world. Over the past three decades, Dr. Darici, a patent holder, has developed and perfected tools that contribute to state-of-the-art research in surface science, nanotechnology and biochemistry. As Director of CWGS, she founded three initiatives, the Gender-based Violence Prevention Initiative, Women in STEM, and FIU’s 100 Women.