I am a graduate of Physics Department of Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. I received my M. Sc. and Ph.D. from the same institute in 1966 and 1971 respectively. I have visited the Yale University as a special student as part of my graduate study in 1968-69. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) , Trieste, Italy in 1972-73. I worked as an assistant professor at METU from 1973-1977 and moved to Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey as an associate professor and became a professor in 1987 in the same institute. I have been visitor to Syracuse University (10 months in 1979), Bielefeld University (14 months in 1980-81), ICTP(6 months in 1988), IHES, Paris (6 months in 1988-89), CERN (9 months in 1989-90), Frankfurt University (4 months in 1990), Yukawa Institute at the Kyoto University (3 months in 1991). I have been working at the Sultan Qaboos University since 1995. I have visited ICTP as a regular and senior associate.
I take teaching seriously, I have taught almost all courses in the physics undergraduate curricula and some graduate courses of my research interest. I have coordinated a number of service courses and supervised many under graduate projects, master and Ph.D. theses.
My current interest is to work on the descriptions of the E8 lattice with icosians and octonions and determine its decomposition under the orbits of Coxeter group. Finite groups and their possible use in physics attract my attention. Determining the orbits of Aut(F4) in the F4 lattice and projecting them to 3-dimensions; model building for the inhomogeneous temperature distribution of the universe are among my interest. Quasi-exact solutions of the Schroedinger equations and their applications to the condensed matter phenomena are an area that I am involved in with Dr. R Koc and his collaborators.