I am a professor of astronomy and astrophysics and I am working in Ankara University, Astronomy and Space Sciences Department. My research interests include the study of exoplanets and eclipsing binary stars. I define myself as an “observer” before everything else. Looking at the night sky with a telescope gets in the blood. So I do my research based on observational data from ground and space-based telescopes You can reach my scientific publication list fin NASA-ADS database from here…
Teaching is an excellent opportunity to share experiences with students and look at the basics of the field from a different perspective. I teach AST121 Introduction to Astronomy to freshman in our department and AST418 Planetary Systems & Their Formation, to fourth year undergrad students. I am also teaching 801.515 Databases in Astronomy and 801.526 Asteroseismology to graduate students in Ankara University. I have been also teaching PHYS252 Introductory Astronomy course to science and engineering majors in Bilkent University as a part-time instructor since fall 2016.
I used to tach AST415 / AST416 Numerical Analysis in Astronomy I-II, and AST404 Observational Astronomy But a colleague of mine, Dr. Engin Bahar, is teaching the numerical analysis courses currently. You might want to contact him for the updates in the course and its documentation. The Observational Astronomy course is closed now and Prof. Hakan Volkan Şenavcı is teaching a similar course with a different content. So the content I taught is out-dated and mostly obsolete.
This is my personal website. You can find information about myself, my research, the courses I am teaching in the department, and my thoughts in diverse topics of interest in the blog section. You can also find my current curriculum vitae and research highlights in Ankara University’s Research information System AVESIS.