Ali Övgün
Associate Professor of Physics
Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimağusa
Ali Övgün is an Associate Professor of Physics at Eastern Mediterranean University in Gazimağusa. His research explores the intersections of quantum gravity, cosmology, particle physics, and astrophysics. He has a particular interest in quantum gravity and its implications for black hole physics and cosmology beyond their standard models.
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Biography
Dr. Övgün was born in 1988 in Cyprus. He graduated from Girne 19 Mayıs Türk Maarif Koleji in 2005.
He attended the İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), Turkey, as an undergraduate, earning a B.Sc. in Physics in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Durmuş Ali Demir.
In 2011, he spent a year at the University of Southampton, England, to gain experience in astroparticle physics through SEPnet Ph.D. Scholarships. He then returned to Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), where he completed his M.Sc. in 2013 and Ph.D. in Physics in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mustafa Halilsoy.
Dr. Övgün was awarded a FONDECYT Postdoctorado 2017 Grant to continue his research for three years at the Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaíso, Chile, as a postdoctoral researcher.
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Academic Experiences
- Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Eastern Mediterranean University.
- Postdoctoral Researcher (FONDECYT) (2017–2020)
Prof. Joel Saavedra, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.
- Research Visitor (July/August 2022)
Prof. Durmuş A. Demir, Sabancı University, Turkey.
- PITP2018 School (July 2018)
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
- Research Visitor (April/May 2018)
Prof. Leonard Susskind, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, USA.
- Research Visitor (April 2018)
Prof. Douglas Singleton, California State University, Fresno, USA.
- Research Visitor (Jan/Feb 2018)
Prof. Robert B. Mann, University of Waterloo, Canada.
- Research Visitor (Jan/Feb 2018)
Prof. Robert B. Mann, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada.
- Short-term Visitor (Oct 2017)
CERN, TH Division, Switzerland.
- Ph.D. Physics (Feb 2013–June 2016)
Prof. Mustafa Halilsoy, Eastern Mediterranean University.
- M.Sc. Physics (Sep 2011–Feb 2013)
Prof. Mustafa Halilsoy, Eastern Mediterranean University.
- Visiting Ph.D. in Astroparticle Physics (2010–2011)
University of Southampton, England.
- B.Sc. Physics (Sep 2006–July 2010)
Prof. Durmuş Ali Demir, İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), Turkey.
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Professional Memberships
Dr. Övgün is an active member of:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)
- European Physical Society (EPS)
- Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SEENET-MTP)
- Turkish Astronomical Society (TAD)
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
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Doctoral Genealogy
- Ali Övgün
- Mustafa Halilsoy
- Yavuz Nutku
- S. Chandrasekhar
- Arthur S. Eddington