Chemical Engineering · Gazi University
Fascinated by fusion.
The energy of our future.
THE ENERGY OF STARS
What if the energy that powers stars could help power our future? Fusion pulls me in because of what it could make possible — a different horizon for the world we build.
TOKAMAK · PLASMA IN MOTIONA POSSIBILITY WORTH FOLLOWING
I’m drawn to ideas that make the future feel bigger. Fusion is one of them: a reason to look past what works today and ask what we could make possible next.
CURIOSITY · WITHOUT A FIXED HORIZONMORE THAN AN ENGINEERING CHALLENGE
What could we build, make, or explore if our energy possibilities changed? That’s the future I imagine when I think about fusion. That’s why I want to understand what it takes.
PLASMA · A GROWING POSSIBILITYA SMALL BEGINNING. A DIFFERENT FUTURE.
Two light nuclei. A release of energy. A possibility that reaches far beyond the reaction itself. I’m at the beginning of my own journey — and this is the question I want to follow.
FUSION · THE ENERGY OF OUR FUTUREConceptual geometry and fusion illustration · not to scale
I study Chemical Engineering at Gazi University. Fusion is the thread I keep following — across physics, engineering, and the bigger question of how we power the world.
I believe the next era of research will favour people who learn to think with AI — asking better questions, connecting ideas, and moving from insight to experiment. Adapting to that shift, while keeping scientific judgement at the centre, is part of the researcher I want to become.
A big ambition.
A specific question to work on.
My interest in fusion led me to look at the problems still standing in its way. Material erosion caught my attention: what happens to a surface when it has to withstand plasma, again and again?
That question brought me to plasma–material interactions. Today, I’m working towards an experimental system at Ankara University to study related interactions in an electric-propulsion context. It’s a way to investigate a question that began, for me, with fusion.
My current focus is hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a material used in electric-propulsion systems. I’m interested in how its initial condition — including abrasion and small thermal cracks — may influence erosion under plasma exposure.
The work involves developing a literature-grounded experimental framework and exploring particle–surface models. The system is being developed to examine these interactions in an electric-propulsion setting, rather than in a fusion reactor.
Current stage: literature review and experimental design. The longer-term motivation remains understanding the challenges on the path to fusion energy.
I founded Fortress Project Squad in 2021 as a club supporting scientific project development at my high school — a place to help ideas become projects, together.
Today, I’m on the administrative board of the R&D unit at Gazi’s Chemical Engineering Society. I enjoy being around people who want to turn a question into a project.
Fusion interests me for what it could mean for the environment as much as for engineering. Through a fusion-focused proposal for the COP31 Türkiye youth climate ideathon, I’ve begun taking that interest into the climate conversation.
I want to explore how future energy technologies could help reduce our environmental footprint — and take part in making that future possible.
OUTSIDE THE LAB
Beyond the questions I pursue in energy and engineering, I’m also drawn to the visual side of things. Photography is where that instinct takes shape — through composition, light, and the small details that give a scene its character.
I enjoy making images with aesthetic intention: choosing what to include, what to leave out, and how a moment should feel when held still.
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