Today's Theoretical Physics is Tomorrow's Technology
At the EMU Physics Department, researchers investigate nature across a wide range of scales, from quantum systems and curved surfaces to black holes, gravity, cosmology, and condensed matter. Their work is driven by the search for fundamental understanding, but it also contributes to the long-term development of new scientific methods, new technologies, and new ways of interpreting the physical world.
Our department has active strengths in gravitation, cosmology, mathematical physics, quantum theory, quantum computation, black hole physics, nonlinear field theory, condensed matter, liquid crystals, and interdisciplinary topics connecting physics with geometry, biology, medicine, and materials science. These research directions reflect both the classical foundations of physics and the emerging frontiers of modern theoretical and experimental science.
This page presents an overview of the research interests currently represented in the Physics Department. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to contact faculty members directly for more detailed information about available supervision areas, current projects, and possible interdisciplinary collaborations.
Research Interests
Theoretical Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
Prof. Dr. Habib Mazharimousavi
Research interests include general relativity, gravitational physics, and mathematical physics, with emphasis on exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations, black hole physics, nonlinear electrodynamics, and the interaction between matter fields and spacetime geometry. His work also covers thin-shell dynamics and stability, spherical and cylindrical shell geometries, deformed shell configurations, generalized junction conditions from Einstein to Weyl gravity, Einstein–Yang–Mills theory in higher dimensions, and geometric approaches to curved biological surfaces, membranes, and quantum systems on nontrivial backgrounds.
Prof. Dr. İzzet Sakallı
Research interests lie at the intersection of general relativity, quantum gravity, and mathematical physics, especially black hole thermodynamics, Hawking radiation, greybody factors, quasinormal modes, area and entropy quantization, and exact solutions of relativistic wave equations. His work further includes perturbations and stability of black holes in lower and higher dimensions, gravitational lensing, black hole shadows, modified gravity theories, exotic matter environments, astrophysical clouds, cosmic strings, colliding plane waves, geodesics, chaos, and observational signatures of compact objects.
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Halilsoy
Research interests include exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations, gravitational waves, black hole physics, wormholes, and related spacetime structures. His work has long contributed to the study of strong gravitational systems, relativistic geometry, and cosmological models within classical and modified gravity frameworks.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Övgün
Research interests span the frontiers of quantum gravity, cosmology, particle physics, and astrophysics, with a particular focus on uncovering new physics through black holes and the universe at its most fundamental level. His work is internationally recognized in modified gravity, black hole shadows, gravitational lensing, Hawking radiation, and quasinormal modes, and includes important analytical methods for probing strong-gravity phenomena. He also studies wormholes, compact stars, cosmological inflation, quantum optics in curved spacetime, and quantum processes in nontrivial geometries, combining gravity, field theory, mathematics, and computational science to identify observable signatures beyond standard gravitational frameworks.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Güllü
Research interests include massive gravity, Born–Infeld gravity, and higher-derivative gravity theories, with emphasis on modified classical field equations and their implications for gravitational physics.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Huriye Gürsel Mangut
Research interests are centered on theoretical and high-energy physics, with particular emphasis on black hole thermodynamics, holography, the information loss paradox, quantum vacuum fluctuations, and quantum gravity. Her work also includes Hawking radiation, quasinormal modes, greybody factors, AdS/CFT correspondence, black branes and black strings, holographic superconductors, magnetic monopoles, gravitational lensing, phase transitions, and the effective description of gravitational systems in higher-dimensional frameworks.
Dr. Mert Mangut
Research interests include theoretical and mathematical physics, general relativity, gravitational waves, classical and quantum singularities, black holes, functional analysis, topology, and differential geometry.
Dr. Zahra Amirabi
Research interests include wormhole physics, thin-shell wormholes, the stability of thin shells and thin-shell wormholes in Rainbow Gravity, and thin-shell wormholes in f(R) gravity.
Theoretical Quantum Physics and Quantum Computation
Prof. Dr. Omar Mustafa
Research interests are in theoretical and mathematical physics, including relativistic and non-relativistic quantum systems, approximation and perturbation techniques, non-Hermitian complex Hamiltonians, and classical and quantum position-dependent mass dynamics. His work also covers nonlocal transformations, Euler–Lagrange invariance, exact solvability, nonlinear dynamics, spectroscopic properties of quantum particles in flat and curved spacetimes, and optical signatures associated with black holes, wormholes, magnetized monolayers, and low-dimensional quantum structures.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Rıza
Research interests include quantum theory, quantum computing, non-commutative quantum mechanics, dynamical systems and chaos, non-Newtonian calculi, computational physics, quantum tunneling, quantum cryptography, and time-dependent phenomena in quantum mechanics.
Experimental Physics
Assist. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Okcan
Research interests include liquid crystals, phase transitions, and experimental studies in condensed matter and soft-matter physics.
