Prof. Dr. Ertuğrul Başar graduated from Kabataş Erkek High School in 2003 and received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Istanbul University in 2007. He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Wireless Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tampere University, Finland, where he leads the Wireless Systems Group at the Tampere Wireless Research Center. Previously, he held academic positions at Istanbul Technical University (2009–2018) and Koç University (2018–2025). At Koç University, he served as the Director of the Communications Research and Innovation Laboratory (CoreLab) (2018–2026) and as the Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2024–2025). He was also a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University, USA (2011–2012), and a Mercator Fellow at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2022).

His research interests include 6G and beyond wireless communication networks, multiple-antenna systems and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), signal processing and artificial intelligence applications for communications, secure communications, and quantum-assisted communication systems. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Nature npj Wireless Technology. He previously served as an Associate/Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2016–2022), IEEE Transactions on Communications (2018–2022), Elsevier Physical Communication (2017–2020), and IEEE Access (2016–2018).

Prof. Dr. Başar, who was elected an Associate Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) in 2023, is one of Türkiye's youngest Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has authored more than 200 articles in international journals, holds five patents, and his publications have received approximately 22,000 citations. He is also included in Stanford University's list of the World's Most Influential Scientists. He currently leads research projects funded by the Research Council of Finland, the Finnish Research Impact Foundation, and the Horizon Europe Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU). Previously, he conducted numerous TÜBİTAK-funded projects, as well as extensive collaborative projects with institutions and companies such as BİLGEM, ULAK, Vestel, and ASELSAN.

His awards and distinctions include the Intelligent and Converged Networks Best Paper Award (2025), IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2024), Koç University Outstanding Teaching Award (2023), TÜBİTAK National Leading Researchers Programme Grant (2022), IEEE Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award (2020), Science Heroes Association Scientist of the Year Award (2020), METU Parlar Foundation Research Incentive Award (2019), Science Academy Young Scientist Award (2018), IEEE Türkiye Research Incentive Award (2017), and TÜBA Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2017).