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Ali Övgün

Dr. Ali Övgün

Eastern Mediterranean University

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Dr. Övgün attended the İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), Turkey, as an undergraduate, earning a B.Sc. in Physics in 2010. He spent a year at the University of Southampton, England, to gain experience in astroparticle physics via SEPnet Ph.D. Scholarships in 2011. He then returned to Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), North Cyprus, to complete his M.Sc. in 2013 and Ph.D.in Physics in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mustafa Halilsoy. ​ He was thereafter awarded a FONDECYT Postdoctorado 2017 Grant to continue his research for 3 years at the Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaíso, Chile as a Postdocs researcher. *A short-term visitor at TH Division, Physics Department, CERN in October 2017; *Research Visitor of Prof. Robert B. Mann at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada from January to February 2018; *Research Visitor of Prof. Douglas Singleton at California State University, Fresno in April 2018; *Research Visitor of Prof. Leonard Susskind at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics from April to May 2018; *Research Visitor of Prof. Durmus Demir at Sabanci University from July to August 2022; *He is an associate professor at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus.

Research Keywords & Expertise

Cosmology
black holes
deflection angle
Hawking radiation
gravitational lensing

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Dr. Övgün attended the İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), Turkey, as an undergraduate, earning a B.Sc. in Physics in 2010. He spent a year at the University of Southampton, England, to gain experience in astroparticle physics via SEPnet Ph.D. Scholarships in 2011. He then returned to Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), North Cyprus, to complete his M.Sc. in 2013 and Ph.D.in Physics in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mustafa Halilsoy. ​ He was thereafter awarded a FONDECYT Postdoctorado 2017 Grant to continue his research for 3 years at the Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaíso, Chile as a Postdocs researcher. *A short-term visitor at TH Division, Physics Department, CERN in October 2017; *Research Visitor of Prof. Robert B. Mann at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada from January to February 2018; *Research Visitor of Prof. Douglas Singleton at California State University, Fresno in April 2018; *Research Visitor of Prof. Leonard Susskind at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics from April to May 2018; *Research Visitor of Prof. Durmus Demir at Sabanci University from July to August 2022; *He is an associate professor at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus.