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Research Activities

(2020)
  

 

                      Research

Collider physics: Top quark physics, Standard Model Measurements, Event Modeling, Calorimetry
High energy/particle astrophysics,
Computational physics

 

                      Collaborations

Collaborator on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, Switzerland since 2005

The HEP Software Foundation, CERN, Switzerland since 2019

 

                      Appointments

  • 2020-present: Assistant Research Fellow National Taiwan University (NTU),
  • 2016-2020: Postdoctoral researcher Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP),
  • 2011-2016: Postdoctoral researcher University of Ghent (UGent), Ghent, Belgium
  • 2007-2011: Postdoctoral research associate Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, TX, USA
  • 2005-2007: Guest scientist and software developer Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, IL, USA
  • 2000-2007: Teaching and research assistant Middle East Tehnical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey

 

                      Awards and Scholarships

 

 

                      Responsibilities

  • Convenership/Coordinator Positions
    • [2020-]: High Energy Physics Software Foundation (HSF) Physics Generators Convener, CERN
    • [2017-2019]: CMS Physics Generators Convener (level 2 management), CERN
    • [2016-2017]: CMS Physics Comparisons and Generator Tunes Convener (level 3 management), CERN
    • [2015-2017]: CMS Top Quark Event Modelling and Generators Convener (level 3 management), CERN
    • [2013-2014]: CMS Top Quark Properties Group Convener (level 3 management), CERN
    • [2010-2011]: CMS Electroweak Dilepton Group Convener (level 3 management), CERN
    • [2009-2011]: CMS Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL) Data Certification Leader, CERN
    • [2008-2009]: CMS HCAL Prompt Analysis Group Leader, CERN
    • [2004]: Freshman Physics Laboratory (mechanics and electronics) Coordinator, METU
    • [2000-2002]: Installation/commissioning of the Computer Assisted Freshmen Physics Laboratory (mechanics and electronics), METU

  • Contact Person in CMS
    • [2014-2019]: Top quark conference contact person, CERN
    • [2010]: Calorimeter noise contact person in V+Jets group, CERN
    • [2009-2011]: Physics Validation team contact person for HCAL, CERN
    • [2007-2009]: HCAL contact person for global runs, CERN
    • [2007-2008]: HCAL contact person for Particle Flow groups, Fermilab/CERN
    • [2007-2008]: Data reconstruction and transfer for ECAL+HCAL Test beam, Fermilab/CERN   

  • Shifts in CMS
    • [2009-present]: Data Quality Monitoring Expert-On-Call Shifts, CERN
    • [2007-2009]: Hadron Calorimeter Shifts, CERN

  • Consultant/Scientific Advisor
    • [2015-2018]: Consultant for the project "Free electron distribution in the Galaxy, distances to pulsars and magnetic fields of neutron stars", TUBITAK
    • [2015]: Scientific advisor for the turkish translation of the book "Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids", TUBITAK

  • Reviewer for the Journals
    • Physics Letters B
    • European Journal of Physics C

  • Committees
    • Member of the jury and the reading committee for the Ph.D. thesis of Kelly Beernaert (UGent) "Measurement of Spin Correlations in Systems in the muon+jets Channel using a Matrix Element Method with the CMS Detector at the LHC 2015.
    • Operations research committee member for Izmir High Energy Physics Workshop; New Physics at the LHC and Turkey-CERN relations in 2013.
    • CMS Analysis Review Committee Member for CMS Top Quark, Standard Model and Higgs boson analyses since 2012.

                      Other/Past Research Grants

  • [2014-2017]: Researcher in 2014TAEKCERN-A5.H6.F2.07 Precision measurements of the standard model and searches for beyond standard model physics and supersymmetry
  • [2004]: Researcher in METU-BAP-2004-07-02-00-35 Carbon nano-toroidal and -helix structures, and investigation of their mechanical and electronic properties

                      Teaching and Supervision

  • Lectures in Summer Schools
    • Top Physics, Lectures in Hadron Collider School - HASCO 2017, 16-21 July 2017, Gottingen, Germany.
    • Top Quark Physics, Lecture in Hadron Collider School - HASCO 2016, 17-22 July 2016, Gottingen, Germany.
    • Top Quark Physics (Production and Mass), Lecture in Hadron Collider School - HASCO 2015, 19-24 July 2015, Gottingen, Germany.
    • Top Quark Physics (Properties), Lecture in Hadron Collider School - HASCO 2014, 20 July - 1 August 2014, Gottingen, Germany.
    • Top Quark Physics at Colliders, Invited Lecture at ERASMUS ISSCSMB-12, International Summer School and Conference on High Energy Physics: Standard Model and Beyond, 28 August - 8 September 2012, Belek, Antalya, Turkey.
  • Lectures in the CERN Teachers Programme
    • Cosmology, Lectures in Turkish Teacher Programme 8 at CERN, 25 January 2018, Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Astroparticle Physics, Lectures in Turkish Teacher Programme 8 at CERN, 24 January 2018, Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Cosmology, Lectures in Turkish Teacher Programme 7 at CERN, 1 February 2017, Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics, Lectures in Turkish Teacher Programme 7 at CERN, 31 January and 1 February 2017, Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Astroparticle Physics, Lectures in Turkish Teacher Programme 6 at CERN, 28 June 2016, Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Astroparticle Physics, Lecture in Turkish Teacher Programme 3 at CERN, 27 January 2015, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • [2000-2005]: Problem Sessions and Laboratory courses (at METU)
    • Graduate Electromagnetic Theory I
    • Physics for Students in Science I and II
    • Concepts of Modern physics for second year undergraduates
    • Freshmen Physics Laboratory
    • Physics Laboratory I and II (in advanced physics program)
    • Experiments in Physics (in advanced physics program)

  • Supervised Theses
    • [2016]: N. Bulte, Search for Scalar Top Quark Partners and Parton Shower Tuning in Modelling Top Quark Pairs, Master's Thesis, Ghent University.
    • [2011-2015]: K. Beernaert, Measurement of Spin Correlations in Systems in the muon+jets Channel using a Matrix Element Method with the CMS Detector at the LHC, PhD Thesis, Ghent University.

  • Supervised Theses (at CERN) as Mentor
    • [2012]: M. O. Sahin, Search for Z’ via Forward Backward Asymmetry in Dielectron Channel with the CMS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider, Master's Thesis, Middle East Technical University.
    • [2008-2011]: Y. Roh, Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Z Boson to Dilepton Events in Compact Muon Solenoid at a Center-of-mass Energy of 7 TeV, PhD Thesis, Texas Tech University.
    • [2011]: B. Bilin, Production of Z+Jet Events and HF Jet Energy Scale Calibration at 7 TeV in the CMS Experiment at the LHC, Master's Thesis, Middle East Technical University.

  • Supervised Summer Projects (at CERN)
    • [2014]: I. Michiels (Ghent University Summer Student at CERN), Spin Correlation in the ttbar+H channel
    • [2014]: S. Demulder (Vrije University Brussels Summer Student at CERN), Can the Incline Asymmetry be Observed at the LHC.
    • [2014]: J. Duvillier (Ghent University Summer Student at CERN), Energy Asymmetry Measurement using ttbar+Jet Systems at sqrt(s) >=8 TeV in CMS.
    • [2013]: C. Moortgat (Ghent University Summer Student at CERN), Effects of Non-Zero Chromo-Moments on Spin Correlation using a Matrix Element Approach:
    • [2012] M. Unal (CERN Summer student), Analyses of Z+1 Jet Events using the Full Rapidity Coverage of CMS.
    • [2008]: M. Orlov (CERN Summer student), Validation of Single Particle Response in HCAL.

  • [2009-2012]: Tutorials (at CERN) Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) shift tutorials.

       

                          Education and Training

    • Ph.D. in Physics (GPA: 3.61/4.00) METU (host laboratory: Fermilab) [2007] Thesis: ”Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson in CMS via Vector Boson Fusion in the H->W+W- Channel and Optimization of Energy Reconstruction in CMS using Test Beam 2006 Data, fermilab-thesis-2007-13.
    • M.Sc. in Physics (Specialized in Astrophysics) (GPA: 3.56/4.00) METU [2002] Thesis: Timing Characteristics of Intermediate Polar Type Cataclysmic Variables and Data Analysis on YY Draconis.
    • B.S. in Physics (GPA: 3.31/4.00) METU [2000]

                          Languages

    Turkish, English, French

     

                          Programming and Software

    • Programming/Scripting/Data analysis software: C/C++, python, shell, root, grid, ...
    • Administering: Linux/unix, Mac OS-X, version control (CVS, SVN, GIT)

     

                          Outreach and Press

    • Data science in high energy particle physics, in Istanbul Tech Week (online conference), 3-7 November 2020.
    • Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, in Turkish Teachers Programs at CERN , Geneva, 2015-present.
    • Turkish Scientists at CERN , published in the journal Sozcu, 23 February 2005.
    • Appeared in Old School Electroweak , in CMS Result of the Month in Fermilab Today, 3 August 2012.
    • Selected Contributions to the CMS Experiment at the LHC from Past and Present Members of the METU High Energy Physics Group, Poster for CERN: Accelerating Science Exhibition, 2 April - 8 July 2012, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
    • Interview about CERN, 100 Turkish Scientists Working Abroad and the Lost Economic Potential of Turkey, published in the TurkishTime, January 2012.
    • The Turks after the Great Mystery, published in the journal Hurriyet Kampus, 18 February 2011.
    • Interview about CERN, published in the journal Radikal, 24 January 2011 and Matematik Dunyasi, 86 (2011) 20.
    • Appeared in Rediscovering the Weak Force in CMS Result of the Month in Fermilab Today, 9 July 2010.
    • Interview about Turkey’s involvement at CERN, published in the journal Turkish Daily News, 2009.
    • Interviews on the LHC First Beam Day on CNN Turk, 9-10 September 2008.
    • Interview about CERN, Experiment of the Century, published in the journal Radikal, 1 January 2007.
    • Physics Department Outreach Days for High School Students, 2002 and 2003.