Discovering the High Energy Universe

My name is Özgür Can Özüdoğru, but you can call me Oz if you’re not familiar with Turkish and my name is too hard for you to pronounce :) I graduated from the physics department of Middle East Technical University in 2019 and am doing my Master’s in Astrophysics at METU. My research mostly focuses on the spectral and timing analysis of the accretion disks of Neutron Stars and Black Holes. I use X-Ray data from space telescopes such as Chandra, Swift and NICER to investigate the physical phenomenon happening around those objects. I am also very interested in music, amateur astronomy, astrophotography, arts, cooking, and history and philosophy. I can talk about rock music of the 70s, Ancient Greek philosophers, or 19th Century Impressionism for hours. I have also worked as a columnist at various Turkish popular science magazines and took part in numerous outreach events together with the METU Amateur Astronomy Society.