Background
Övgün was born in 1988 in Cyprus.
Övgün was born in 1988 in Cyprus.
-Faculty Member (2018-)
Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
-Postdoctoral Researcher (FONDECYT 2017-2020)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.
-PITP2018 (July 2018)
The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
-Research Visitor (April/May-2018)
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, USA.
-Research Visitor (April-2018),
California State University Fresno, USA.
-Research Visitor (Jan/Feb-2018),
University of Waterloo, Canada.
-Research Visitor (Jan/Feb-2018)
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada.
-Short-term Visitor (Oct-2017)
CERN TH Division, Switzerland.
-Ph.D. Physics (2013-2016)
Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
-MSc Physics (2011-2013)
Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
-Visiting Ph.D. Physics (2010-2011)
University of Southampton, UK
BSc Physics (2006-2010)
Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
He graduated from Girne 19 Mayıs Türk Maarif Koleji in 2005. He attended İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), Turkey as an undergraduate, earning a B.Sc. in Physics in 2010 under the advisor of Prof. Dr. Durmuş Ali Demir.
After spending one year visiting Ph.D. student in astroparticle physics by SEPnet Ph.D. Scholarships in 2011 at the University of Southampton, England, he returned to Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), North Cyprus, then he received his M.Sc. in 01/2013 (1.5 years).
Next, he got a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the EMU working with Prof. Dr. Mustafa Halilsoy (Halil) and Prof. Dr. İzzet Sakallı in 06/2016 (3.5 years). During his master's and doctoral studies, he worked as a full-time research assistant. After his Ph.D., he worked as a Part-time Physics lecturer for a year at EMU. Afterward, he is awarded a FONDECYT Postdoctorado 2017- Grant with Prof. Joel Saavedra to continue his research for 3 years at the Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaíso, Chile as a Postdocs Researcher.
He was a short-term visitor at TH Division, Physics Department, CERN. Switzerland in October 2017. Then he became a Research Visitor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, and also at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada in January and February 2018. Next, he was a visitor at California State University, Fresno in April 2018. Then he was a visitor at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics in April/May. In July, he attended to PITP2018 at The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
He is a visiting Assistant professor at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. He is a member of American Physical Society (APS), Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), European Physical Society (EPS) , Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SEENET-MTP) and American Mathematical Society (AMS). He is one of the co-founders of Bumblebee Institute for Advanced Study.
2011-2016 Research Assistant, Eastern Mediterranean Uni, Cyprus
2016-2017 Part time Faculty Member, Eastern Mediterranean Uni, Cyprus
2018 Full time Faculty Member, Eastern Mediterranean Uni, Cyprus
Ali is single.