Faculty

Full Time Faculty

Associate Professor

levent.akant@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3596613
Interest Areas

Mathematical Physics, High Energy Theory. 

Assistant Professor

bora.akgun@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597600
Interest Areas

High Energy Physics, Particle Physics Detectors, Detector Readout and Data Acquisition Systems

Associate Professor

askin.ankay@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597593
Interest Areas

High Energy Astrophysics; Compact Objects; Supernova Remnants.

kaplanz@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597594
Interest Areas

Experimental Solid State Physics; Instructor in Introductory Laboratories

Assistant Professor

aslan@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 359 7083
Interest Areas

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics; Optical & Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Materials, Strain Engineering of 2D Materials, Semiconductor Optics, Exciton Physics

Professor

demirale@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3594568
Interest Areas

Atomic and Molecular Physics; Solid State Physics

Assistant Professor

parviz.elahi@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3594465
Interest Areas

High-power fiber laser, Raman fiber laser, Mode-locked fiber laser, Nonlinear fiber optics, Industrial and medical applications of fiber laser, Fiber laser for optical trapping and imaging.

 

Professor

ercan@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3596616
Interest Areas

Galactic Bulge X-ray sources, Low Mass X-ray Binaries, X-ray Bursters, Globular Cluster X-ray Sources, Cataclysmic X-ray Binary Systems. X-ray and Optical Observations of the aforementioned topics, and the data analysis of Ariel-5, Exp.C, Ariel-6, EXOSAT, GINGA, ROSAT, XMM Newton, ASCA, Chandra and Suzaku, Nu-Star  X-ray observations. Theoretically, Galaxy formation, Giant Planets and evolution of planets. Japan-Turkey collaboration on X-ray and optical observations of Galaxy Clusters.Clusters of Galaxies, X-Ray and Optical observations of Supernova Remnants, Gamma Ray Astronomy Observations. Possible Supernova Candidates search in Nearby Galaxies in Optical and X-rays. Mega Masers, AGNs. Research on observational X-rays of dark matter and dark energy.

Associate Professor

hakan.erkol@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3594466
Interest Areas

Medical Physics

Professor

mehmethakan.erkut@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597048
Interest Areas

Theoretical High Energy Astrophysics, Accretion Disks, Magnetohydrodynamics, Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Theory of magnetosphere-disk interaction in accreting neutron-star systems such as X-ray pulsars in binaries, ultraluminous X-ray pulsars with super-Eddington accretion disks, anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma repeaters with supernova fallback disks. Evolutionary modeling of ultraluminous X-ray sources in high-mass X-ray binaries. Modeling of quasi-periodic oscillations in both neutron-star and black-hole low-mass X-ray binaries. Radio efficiency of pulsars.

emine.ertugrul@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 359 75 94
Assistant Professor

ilmar.gahramanov@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597280
Interest Areas

Mathematical physics, supersymmetry, integrability

Professor

gulmez@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3596630
Interest Areas

Experimental Nuclear Physics; High Energy Physics; Medical Physics

Professor

naci.inci@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597602
Interest Areas

Experimental Solid State

Physics of nano-particles, time-resolved imaging and spectroscopy of nano-particles, investigation of physical and optical properties of nano-particle-doped polymers and their sensor applications, fiber optics, optical sensors, photonic crystals, optical metrology, quantum information, quantum cryptography

icagriiseri06@gmail.com

+90 212 359 75 94
Assistant Professor

can.kozcaz@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 359 6891
Interest Areas

String theory, Mathematical phyics

Professor

levent.kurnaz@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597279
Interest Areas

Climate science and policy, sustainability, environmental risk assessment

Professor

nergiz@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3594567
Interest Areas

Theoretical Physics: String Theory, Self-Dual Yang-Mills Fields; Monopole, Instanton and Vortex solutions.

Assitant professor

arkadas.ozakin@boun.edu.tr

Interest Areas

 Yapay öğrenme, matematiksel fizik, geometrik mekanik

Professor

ozhan.ozatay@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597188
Interest Areas

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics; Nanomagnetism and Spin Electronics, Nanoscale memory structures

Professor

erkcan.ozcan@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597596
Interest Areas

Experimental particle physics

In particular my research has covered precision measurements and discovery analyses at large colliders (BaBar, ATLAS), high-speed particle tracking in busy environments, various table-top accelerators and inexpensive particle detectors.

Professor

tonguc.rador@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597603
Interest Areas

Theoretical High Energy Physics; Cosmology, Statistical Mechanics

Professor

semizibr@boun.edu.tr, ibrahim.semiz.fizik@gmail.com

+90 212 3597617
Interest Areas

Mathematical Physics, General Relativity (Black Holes & Cosmology)

Assitant professor

gizem.sengor@boun.edu.tr

4509
Interest Areas

cosmology, quantum field theory on curved spacetimes and the role of symmetries

Professor

turgutte@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3597595
Interest Areas

Mathematical Physics,Quantum Field Theory and its Mathematical aspects,Gauge theory,Large-N limit of Quantum Field Theory Models,Geometric Quantization and Symnplectic Geometr

Professor

burcin.unlu@gmail.com

+90 212 3596885
Interest Areas

Medical and Biological Physics,Photoacoustic tomography,Diffuse optical tomography,Propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic waves in biological tissue,Inverse problems in medical physics,Acoustic and optical instrumentation for cancer imaging,Mathematical Oncology

Associate Professor

dieter.van@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3594468
Interest Areas

Theoretical High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics

Publications

 

Part Time Faculty

Professor

akyuzo@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3596570
Interest Areas

Theoretical Nuclear Physics; General principles of Physics; Physics as culture

Professor

aktas@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3596612
Interest Areas

Experimental Solid State Physics

Electrical and optical characterization of amorphous and chalcogenide thin films.

Adjunct and Emeritus Faculty

Emeritus Professor

arikm@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3596615
Interest Areas

Theoretical Physics

Particle Algebras and Quantum Groups,ATLAS and CAST experiments,Cosmology

http://ma65.boun.edu.tr

Adjunct Professor

utkan@stanford.edu

Adjunct Professor

mehmet.erbudak@boun.edu.tr erbudak@phys.ethz.ch

Interest Areas

surface science

Emeritus Professor

sevgena@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3594464
Interest Areas

Nuclear Physics, Musical Acoustics

Emeritus Professor

sakarlat@boun.edu.tr

+90 212 3596571
Interest Areas

Solid State Physics

Physical electronics,Photonics,Electrical transport in amorphous materials, glasses, and polymers

Adjunct Professor

gokhan.unel@cern.ch

Interest Areas

Particle Physics