M. H. Erkut

M. Hakan Erkut was born in 1972. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (2005). He worked as a research assistant at the Department of Physics of Bogazici University (1996-1999 and 2000-2001). He was a teaching assistant at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in USA between 1999 and 2000. During his Ph.D. study, between 2001 and 2005, he worked as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Physics of the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA between 2005 and 2006. He also worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey between 2006 and 2008. He was appointed as an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (2008-2010) and the Department of Physics (2010-2011) of Istanbul Kultur University. He then worked as an associate professor at the Department of Physics of Istanbul Kultur University (2011-2016). He has been conducting his research activities at Feza Gürsey Center for Physics and Mathematics of Bogazici University since he left his position at Istanbul Kultur University in 2016. His research areas are related to the hot topics of high-energy astrophysics such as the theory of interaction of compact objects (neutron stars, black holes) with accretion disks including the modeling of quasi-periodic oscillations in terms of dynamics and instabilities of MHD fluids in strong gravitational fields.