About Me
I love nature and exploring the world — I find that Earth’s beauty really reveals itself when I slow down, wander, and have those nice walks. I’m also an avid cook and enjoy getting creative and flexible with ingredients. Right now I’m in my final year of undergrad and deep in the (seemingly never-ending) PhD application process.
I began my research career studying classes of modified-gravity models and their connection to inflationary dynamics; several projects from that work resulted in published papers shared with the cosmology community.
My research focuses on primordial cosmology: I am involved in constructing and analyzing models of the Universe’s first moments — from single- and multifield inflation to Palatini and modified gravity frameworks — and study their observational signatures. Using a mix of analytic model building, numerical evolution, and model-independent techniques, I am working on deriving predictions for the CMB primordial tensor modes, and compare them with current and near-future probes. Recent and ongoing projects include natural inflation, induced multi-phase inflation with implications for reheating and leptogenesis, and studies of parity violation and multifield dynamics in modified gravity. My goal is to understand the connection between high-energy theory, the theory of particle physics, and the measurable imprints left by the Universe’s first moments.
Colleagues and Collaborators
I am currently based at Ankara University, and soon to be relocating for my graduate studies to (depends on my admission). I work on primordial cosmology with wonderful colleagues. I colaborate most colsely with Anish Ghoshal on some intersting ideas that directly enhances our understanding of the early dynamics of the universe. Togerther with Andrew Miller we formed a small team to investigate further cosmolgoical questions, such as partity violation and its possible signature on gravitational waves detection; something that sometimes keeps me awake at night.
Some of my present and past collaborators:
Nilay Bostan, Anish Ghoshal, Qaisar Shafi, Zygmunt Lalak, Andrew L. Miller, Antonio Racioppi, Christian Dioguardi, Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Biagio De Simone, Giovanni Montani, S. Shankaranarayanan, Yaren Doruk, Jason Kristiano, and Gonzalo A. Palma
