GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Quantum field theory in curved spacetime,
- Black holes,
- Symbolic and numerical methods in general relativity,
- Generalized uncertainty principle,
- Heun's differential equation.
ACADEMIC DEGREES
- Bachelor of Science in Physical Engineering :
Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Science and
Letters, Dept. of Physics, 1999
- Master of Science in Physics. : Istanbul
Technical University, Institute of Science, Dept. of
Physics, 2002
Thesis Title: "Solutions of Einstein's Equations
in Three Dimensional Anti - de Sitter Space in the
Presence of a Scalar Field"
(Advisor: Prof. Dr. Mahmut HORTACSU)
- Ph.D. in Physics : Istanbul Technical
University, Institute of Science, Dept. of Physics, 2008
Thesis Title: "A Study of Wave Equations in Five
Dimensional Spacetimes with Computational Methods"
(Advisor: Prof. Dr. Mahmut HORTACSU)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
- (September, 1997 - June, 1999): Student
Assistant at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty
of Science and Letters, Department of Physics
- (June, 2000 - April, 2011) : Research
Assistant
at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Science
and Letters, Department of Physics
-- (December, 2008 - December, 2009) : Compulsory military
service
-- (June, 2010 - January 2011): Visiting researcher at the
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and
Astronomy (Collaboration with Prof. Dr. Mirjam CVETIC)
- (April, 2011 - March, 2012) :
Lecturer at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty
of Science and Letters, Department of Physics
- (March, 2012 - April, 2016) :
Assistant Professor at Istanbul Technical
University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of
Physics
-- (October-November, 2013): Visiting res. at the Univ. of
Pennsylvania, Dep. of Physics and Astronomy (Collaboration
with Prof. Dr. Mirjam CVETIC)
- (April, 2016 - Present) : Associate
Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty
of Science and Letters, Department of Physics
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
- (2022- Present) : Advisor for minor students
- (October, 2014 - Present)
: Advisor for double-major students
- (May, 2016 - Present) :
Member of the Faculty Council
- (January, 2019 - Present) : Member of the Center
for Excellence in Engineering and Architecture Education
Advisory Committee
- (May, 2017 - January,
2021) : Vice Head of the Department
COURSES
- Undergraduate
-- Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism)
-- Introduction to Programming Language (Fortran)
-- Modern Physics
-- Symbolic and Numerical Techniques in Physics
-- Computational Methods in Physics
-- Computational Analysis of Physical Systems(Supported by DataCamp)
- Graduate
-- Computational Physics
-- Seminar
-- Special Topics in Mathematical Physics I
-- Special Topics in High Energy Physics I
Thesıs advısees
- Gökhan IPEK (M.Sc.), "Physical
Applications of the Heun Equations with Polynomial
Reduction Cases", Istanbul Technical
University (2018)
- Elif SIRIN (M.Sc.), "Computational
Analysis of the Wave Equations for the Myers-Perry Black
Hole", Istanbul Technical University (2018)
TALKS
- "Three Dimensional Gravity in the Presence of Scalar
Fields", Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul,
Turkey (2003)
- "Examples of Heun and Mathieu Functions as Solutions
of Wave Equations in Curved Spaces", Spanish
Relativity Meeting, Tenerife, Spain (2007)
- "Greybody factors and Black Hole/CFT Correspondence",
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey (2011)
- "Symbolic and Numerical Computation Tools in Physics
and Mathematics", Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University,
Istanbul, Turkey (2014)
- "Microscopic Interpretation of Black Holes",
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2014)
- "Klein-Gordon Equation for Non-Extremal Black Holes
and Conformal Invariance", Bogazici University,
Istanbul, Turkey (2015)
- "Symbolic and Numerical Computation Tools in Physics
and Mathematics", Hacettepe University, Ankara,
Turkey (2015)
- "Specific Form of the Scalar Wave Equation for Black
Holes", Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul,
Turkey (2015)
- "Physical Problems Admitting Heun-to-Hypergeometric
Reduction", Days on Diffraction 2015, St. Petersburg,
Russia (2015)
- "Specific Form of the Wave Equation for Nonextremal
Black Holes", 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome,
Italy (2015)
- "Emergence of Conformal
Invariance in Supergravity Black Holes", 15th
Workshop on Quantization, Dualities and Integrable Systems
(QDIS-15), Feza Gursey Research Center, Istanbul,
Turkey (2016)
REFEREEING
- Advances in Mathematics (ELS)
- Annals of Physics
- Central European Journal of Physics
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Dokuz Eylul Universitesi Fen ve Muhendislik Dergisi
(National)
- European Physical Journal C
- European Physical Journal Plus
- Europhysics Letters (EPL)
- Few-Body Systems
- Indian Journal of Physics
- International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern
Physics
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Journal of Open Source Software
- Open Physics (formerly Central European Journal of
Physics)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A
- Results in Physics
- Suleyman Demirel Universitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakultesi Fen
Dergisi (National)
- Symmetry (MDPI)
- Turkish Journal of Physics
- Universe (MDPI)
- Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A (ZNA)
PROJECTS
- "Applications of General Relativity and Quantum Field
Theory with Computational Methods", ITU BAP Project
(2013-2015)
- "Gauged and Ungauged Spacetimes in Four and Five
Dimensions", TUBITAK 2221 Project for the visit of
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Cvetic (2014)
- "Internal Structure of Black Rings", TUBITAK
2221 Project for the visit of Prof. Dr. Mirjam Cvetic (2015)
AWARD
ORGANIZED MEETINGS (wIth
commItteeS)
- Prof. Dr. Mahmut Hortacsu's 60th Birthday Meeting (2003)
- A Meeting in Honor of Prof. Dr. Mahmut Hortacsu (2010)
- CRYSTR2015: Second Balkan School on Fundamental
Crystallography and Workshop on Magnetic Symmetry (2015)
SKILLS
- Languages: Turkish (native), English
(fluent)
- Computer Literacy:
-- Operating Systems: MS Windows, GNU
Linux
-- Languages and Packages:
--- Symbolic: Maple, Mathematica, SageMath,
Maxima, GRTensorIII, SageManifolds
--- Numerical: Python, Fortran, C(++), MATLAB, MPI,
OpenMP, CUDA, Arrayfire
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
- Director of popular science books at Evrim Publishing
(2000-2008)
- Jury member for the physics projects contests at TUBITAK,
ITU Ekrem Elginkan Private High School, etc. (2010-...)
- Popular science talks on physics and computer programming
at all levels (2000-...)