STUDENTS

Research with students is an important part of my work. Our projects range from supersymmetric field theories and integrability to Hamiltonian systems and mathematical physics.

Student publication archive · Öğrenciler için tavsiyeler · iStringy members

Current research students

Undergraduate research

• Anıl Kahraman, Mathematics/Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2024 –
• Irmak Özgüç, Physics/Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2023 –
• Yaren Yıldırım, Physics/Mathematics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2024 –

Doctoral research

• Taha Ayfer, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2023 –
• Mustafa Mullahasanoğlu, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 –

Postdoctoral researchers & long-term visitors

• Erdal Çatak, Istanbul University, 2021 –

Research with students

Recent examples include Bailey chains in two-dimensional gauge theories, the tetrahedron index, the lens hyperbolic modular double and the collective Ising 100 review.

• Lens Hyperbolic Modular Double
• Bailey Pairs for the Tetrahedron Index
• Bailey chain approach to 2d N=(0,2) dualities
• Ising 100: review of solutions

Former group members

Dates indicate the period of work with the group. Subsequent destinations are retained as part of the historical record.

Completed in 2026

• Reyhan Yumuşak, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2026
• Ali Mert Yetkin, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2026
• Uveys Turhan, Physics/Mathematics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2023-2026
• Semih Kanber, Physics/Mathematics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2026
• Zehra Akbulut, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2024 -2026

Completed in 2025

• Melisa Doğan, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2024 -2025
• Zehra Özcan, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2025
• Anıl Ata, Mathematics/Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2025
• Ahmet Berk Kavruk, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2025
• Oğuz Ağırbaş, Mathematics/Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2025
• Yunus Emre Yıldırım, undergraduate student, Mathematics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2025
• Sinan Ulaş Öztürk, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2023-2025
• Tuğba Hırlı, undergraduate student, Physics/Mathematics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2025
• Yağmur Bülbül, undergraduate student, Physics/Mathematics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2021 – 2025
• Eren Demirci, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2025

Completed in 2024

• Cansu Özdemir, high school student, Çayyolu Doğa Koleji Fen ve Teknoloji, Ankara, 2022-2024 (-> undergraduate student, Toronto University)
• Yağız Eren Kiremit, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2021 – 2024 (-> master student, Boğaziçi University)
• Osman Ergeç, master student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2021-2024

Completed in 2023

• Hilal Demirdelen, Mathematics Department, Gebze Technical University, 2021 – 2023 (-> Teacher at Acarkent Doga Koleji)
• Merve Kaftan, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2021 – 2023 (-> master student, Boğaziçi University)
• Ahmet Baysan, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2023
• Umut Nuri Erdoğan, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2023
• Ali Pazarcı, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 – 2023 (-> MSc student, University of Bologna)
• Dilara Kosva, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 – 2023 (-> PhD student at Stony Brook University)
• Batuhan Keskin, undergraduate student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, 2020 – 2023 (-> PhD student at EPFL)
• Mehmet Dede, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2020 – 2023 (-> PhD student at Boston University)
• Ege Çoban, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 – 2023 (-> MSc student at Cambridge->MSc student at Hamburg)
• Büşra Bozkurt, undergraduate student, Primary Mathematics Education, Boğaziçi University, 2021 -2023
• Hatice Kübra Bağ, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2022 – 2023 (PhD student at University Of Minnesota)

Completed in 2022

• Kerim Saygın, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2021 – 2022
• Sabire Sena Özsan, undergraduate student, Secondary Mathematics Education, Boğaziçi University, 2021 – 2022 (-> MSc student at Boğaziçi University)
• Taha Ayfer, master student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2020 – 2022 (co-supervising with Gizem Şengör)
• Mert Akdenizli, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 – 2022
• Ege Aktener, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2020 – 2022
• Ece Göksu Gök, undergraduate student, Physics Education, Boğaziçi University, 2021 – 2022
• Sedef Taylan, undergraduate student, Physics Education, Boğaziçi University, 2021 – 2022
• Şebnem Karaçubuk, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 – 2022
• Nuri Taş, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 – 2022
• Mehmet Batu Bayındırlı, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2020 – 2022 (co-supervising with Can Kozçaz) (-> PhD student at University Of Minnesota)
• Oğuz Öner, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2020 – 2022 (co-supervising with Can Kozçaz)
• Osman Erkan Kaluç, undergraduate student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, 2020 – 2022 (-> MSc student, École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
• Sena Ergişi, undergraduate student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, 2021 – 2022

Completed in 2021

• Merve Yılmaz, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 2018 – 2021 (co-supervising with Nadir Ghazanfari)
• Deniz Bozkurt, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Koç University, 2017 – 2021 (-> MSc student, Hamburg University and DESY -> PhD student at DESY)

Completed in 2020

• Ersagun Ahmet Güden, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 -2020
• Yüksel Ratib, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğaziçi University, 2019 – 2020
• Ege Eren, undergraduate student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Boğazici University, 2018 -2020 (-> PhD student, University of Chicago)

Completed in 2019

• Asya Pişkin, 2nd year high school student, Beşiktaş Anadolu Lisesi, 2018 – 2019 (-> BSc student, Haliç University)
• Betül Gürbüz, undergraduate student, Mathematics Department, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 2018 – 2019 (-> Master student, Gebze Technical University)
• Shahriyar Jafarzade, master student, Physics Department, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 2013-2019 (-> PhD student, Poland)
• Doğu Dönmez, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 2017-2019

Completed in 2018

• Bilal Çark, undergraduate student, Physics Department, Boğazici University, 2018 (-> Master student->PhD student, Boğaziçi University)

Former postdoctoral researchers

• Saber Rostamzadeh, July 2023 – January 2024
• Yasin Şale, Gebze Technical University, 2022 – 2024
• Eda Kılınçarslan, June-December 2021
• Gökhan Torun, (-> Postdoc, Koç University), June-October 2020