I am from Istanbul, Turkey, and I earned a B.Sc degree in Physics from Sakarya University in Turkey in 2009. I have
had a chance to continue my education at the University of Rzeszow for six months via the Erasmus program in 2008.
After graduating with a B.Sc degree in 2009, I was awarded a full scholarship by the Turkish Minister of Education
to pursue Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in High Energy and Plasma Physics in the US. I began my master’s program in
2011 and received the M.Sc degree in High Energy Physics under the supervision of Dr. Teruki Kamon at Texas A&M
University (TAMU) in 2013. After receiving my M.Sc, I started the same year Ph.D. program at TAMU and worked on
supersymmetry (SUSY) searches and validation and finalizing the geometry of new muon detectors GE1/1, GE2/1, and
ME0 at the CMS detector at CERN. While pursuing my Ph.D. degree at TAMU in 2016, I was among four students in
the US awarded a Fermi National Laboratory scholarship (Fermilab) for one year. I am currently employed as assistant
professor in the physics department at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University.