Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003

Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, 1998

Electrical and Electronics Engineering / Physics, Boğaziçi University, 1995

Nuclear and Particle Physics, Computational Physics, Mathematical Physics

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 is currently serving as an Advisor of the Rector.