My research interests primarily involve observational aspects of exoplanet science, from photometry to spectroscopy. I have studied the challenges posed by stellar mechanisms, e.g. granulation, stellar oscillations, and magnetic activity, in the discovery of exoplanets with the radial velocity method for my Ph.D. thesis. More specifically, I have made use of bisectors of cross correlation functions in order to study line asymmetries in stellar spectra obtained with the HARPS.
My research interests also include photometry of eclipsing binaries, which has been a tradition since 1970s in our department and observatory in Ankara University. In recent years, we have been performing such studies in collaboration with Dr. R.H. Nelson from Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Prof. Stazsek Zola from Jagiellonian University, Prof. Gojko Djurasevic, Dr. Olivia Latkovic from Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade.
We are observing transits of selected exoplanets with the 1 meter Turkish telescope, T100, located in TUBITAK National Observatory of Turkey (TUG), in order to obtain planetary parameters with high precision.In collaboration with Dr. Tobias Cornelius Hinse from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI). More recently, we gave start to a project to search for planets with the well-established “Transit Timing Variation (TTV)” method in known planetary systems with Dr. Vadim Krushinsky from Kourovka Observatory of Ural Federal University and his Ph.D. student Artem Bourdanov. We are observing transits of known exoplanets to search for additional bodies that causes variations in their eclipse timings.
You can find my publications in NASA-ADS database from here. I am giving a below a full list of my publications including the ones not listed in ADS.