Taylan Akdoğan

Taylan Akdoğan

Akdoğan’s recent work is in the area of intermediate-energy nuclear physics. He works toward uncovering the structure of nucleons and few-nucleon systems using electromagnetic and hadronic probes as an experimental tool. He participated several experiments at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His recent work involves:

  • Interaction of few-nucleon systems,
  • Inelastic processes in nucleon-nucleon systems,
  • Electromagnetic structure of few-nucleon systems,
  • Computational Physics,
  • Financial Engineering.


Biographical Sketch

Dr. Akdoğan received his Physics and Electrical Engineering undergraduate degrees from Boğaziçi University in 1995. As a graduate student at the University Pittsburgh, he worked on the DONUT experiment at the Fermi National Laboratory, which made the first direct observation of tau-neutrino in 1998. He received Ph.D. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in experimental nuclear physics in 2003 with a thesis titled pion production in the neutron-proton interactions. He continued his research at MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science as a postdoctoral associate from 2003 to 2004. He contributed to the BLAST program at MIT-Bates Laboratory, which studied the electromagnetic structure of the nucleons and the deuteron and contributed to several experiments at LANSCE utilizing neutron beam to study the nucleon-nucleon systems. He was promoted to the Research Scientist position at MIT in 2004. Then, he joined the Department of Physics at Boğaziçi University in 2006 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor in 2008 and 2013, respectively. His research area has primarily been nuclear and particle physics and computational physics. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences between 2014-2016 at Boğaziçi University. He established Linguistic Department and Humanities Courses Coordination Unit during his tenure. Dr. Akdoğan joined Özyeğin University as a full-time faculty member in 2018. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Director of the Graduate School of Engineering and Sciences between 2018-2022. He established several graduate programs including MS program in Data Science and MS program in Artificial Intelligence during his tenure. He served as the rector’s advisor between 2021-2024.


Selected Publications

  1. E. Ertan, T. Akdoğan, M.B. Chtangeev; et al., Cross sections for neutron-deuteron elastic scattering in the energy range 135–250 MeV, Phys. Rev. C 87, 034003, 2013. (nucl-ex/1211.5243)
  2. C. Zhang, M. Kohl, T. Akdogan; et al., Precise Measurement of Deuteron Tensor Analyzing Powers with BLAST, Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 252501, 2011.
  3. C. Crawford, T. Akdogan, R. Alarcon; et al., Role of mesons in the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon, Phys. Rev. C, 82, 045211, 2010.
  4. Hasell D, Akdogan T; et al., “The BLAST experiment”, Nuclear Instrumentations and Methods in Physics Research A, 603, 247-262, 2009.
  5. E. Geis, M. Kohl, V. Ziskin; et al., Charge Form factor of the Neutron at Low Momentum Transfer from \vec{2H}(\vec{e}, e’p) 1H, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 042501, 2008.
  6. Y. Safkan, T. Akdogan, W. A. Franklin; et al., Differential cross section for neutron-proton bremsstrahlung, Phys. Rev. C 75, 031001, 2007 (nucl-ex/0701009).
  7. C.B. Crawford, A. Sindile, T. Akdogan; et al., Measurement of the proton’s electric to magnetic form factor ratio from \vec{1H}(\vec{e}, e’p), Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 052301, 2007 (nucl-ex/0609007).
  8. J.L. Matthews, T. Akdogan, New results for bremsstrahlung and pion production in the neutron proton system, Phys. Scripta T104, 49, 2003.
  9. DONUT Collaboration – Schwienhorst R.; et al., A new upper limit for the tau-neutrino magnetic moment, Phys. Lett. B 513, 23, 2001.
  10. DONUT Collaboration – Kodama, K.; et al., Observation of tau neutrino interactions, Phys. Lett. B 504, 218, 2001.