About Me
I love nature and exploring the world, I’ve found that Earth’s beauty really shows itself when I slow down, wander a bit aimlessly, and take those long, quiet walks. Outside of physics, I spend a good amount of time in the kitchen. I like to think I’m a great cook… though the results occasionally suggest I’m more of an experimentalist than a chef. Either way, I enjoy the freedom of improvising with whatever ingredients I have.
I’ve also recently taken up a very humble (borderline chaotic) level of tango, still very much in the “counting steps and hoping for the best” phase, but enjoying it a lot. That's why, visiting Argentina is on my near to-do-list, to both get more tango skills and get the taste of their cuisine!
At the moment, I’m in my final year of undergrad and deep in the (seemingly never-ending) PhD application process.
My research focuses on primordial cosmology, with an emphasis on the interplay between inflation, gravity, and high-energy particle physics. I work on constructing and analyzing models of the Universe’s earliest moments, ranging from single- and multifield inflation to Palatini and modified gravity frameworks, and study their observational signatures.
A central theme of my work is understanding how inflation connects to particle physics, embeded in different gravity frameworks, as well as its role in reheating, dark matter production, and leptogenesis. In parallel, I investigate how modifications of gravity and nontrivial field-space dynamics affect primordial fluctuations, gravitational wave propagation, and parity-violating signatures.
Overall, my goal is to develop a coherent framework in which early-universe cosmology serves as a probe of fundamental physics, linking inflationary dynamics to particle physics and observable signatures.
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 both Anish Ghoshal and Nilay Bostan 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
