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About

I work on ab-initio descriptions of nuclear structure, scattering, reactions, and electroweak processes, with a focus on developing Nuclear Lattice EFT (NLEFT) into a high-fidelity framework based on modern chiral EFT interactions.

Snapshot

Current
Professor at Gaziantep Islam S&T University; Associate Professor at KFUPM.
PhD
North Carolina State University (2014) — Supervisor: Prof. Dean Lee.
Awards
Dr. Klaus Erkelenz Prize (2024) and TÜBİTAK programs (1001, 2219, 3501, 3001).

Research themes

  • Ab-initio nuclear scattering and reactions on the lattice: adiabatic projection for nucleon–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus scattering.
  • High-fidelity chiral interactions on the lattice: order-consistent forces and operators (up to N3LO in current projects) using wavefunction matching method.
  • Hypernuclear systems and dense matter: ab-initio hyper-neutron matter and hyper-nuclear matter using auxiliary field quantum Monte-Carlo.

Selected recent highlights

  • Wave function matching for the quantum many-body problem (Nature, 2024).
  • The triton lifetime from nuclear lattice effective field theory (Physics Letters B, 2024).
  • Ab initio lattice study of neutron–alpha scattering with chiral forces at N3LO (J. Phys. G, 2025).
  • Ab-initio alpha-alpha scattering Nature (2015).

See Selected papers for a curated list.