UPPER ATMOSPHERE &
SPACE WEATHER LABORATORY
Research & Group Members
ITU UASWLab conducts research via two main branches:
Space Weather Instrumentation and Forecast Lab (SWIFT) and
Space Weather Operations, Research and Data Processing Center (SWORDpro).
Labs are open during the week from 9am to 5pm.
THE BUSY BEES - PAST AND PRESENT
Busenur Keskin
Research Assistant
MSc Student
Ionosphere, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling, Space Weather Forecast,SID measurements, Web admin.
Sıla Kara
Undergraduate Student
Geomagnetic Storm Effect on Thermospheric Neutral Density, Satellite Drag, Telescope Observations
Deniz Karagüllü
Undergraduate Student
Ionospheric Observations and Modelling, Telescope Observations.
Previous Members
*WIL: While in the Lab.
Filiz Türk Katırcıoğlu
PhD, Researcher, Lecturer
WIL: Dayside Magnetopause, Magnetosheath, Bow Shock, Energetic Particles
E. C. Kalafatoğlu Eyigüler
PhD
WIL: Geomagnetic Storms, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling, Ionospheric Joule Heating, Ionosonde Operations, GICs, SID, Magnetotelluric System, Forecast
Currently: Post Doc. in University of Saskatchewan
İklim Gençtürk Akay
PhD
WIL: Magnetosphere at Lunar Distances, Tail Magnetopause
Currently: Lecturer in Technical University of Delft
Doğacan Su Öztürk
MSc student
WIL: Solar Storms, CMEs,Heliosphere, Solar Wind
Currently: PhD from the University of Michigan, USA.
Assist. Prof. in University of Alaska.
Necmi Cihan Örger
PhD student
WIL: Particle Measurement, Lunar Environment, CubeSat for Space Weather, Space Weather Instrumentation Solar Sail
Currently: PhD from the Kyushu Institute of Technology
Assist. Prof. in Kyushu Institute of Technology
Yiğit Çay
MSc student
WIL: Solar Sail, Space Environment effects on Spacecraft, Polar Cusp, Space Environment Radiation Analysis, CubeSat Instrumentation
Currently: PhD at the Kyushu Institute of Technology
Bute Naz Erbaş
MSc student
WIL: Space Weather forecast, Ionosphere, Ionospheric Storms, GPS-Ionosphere Operations
Currently: Aerospace Industry
Furkan Ali Küçük
MSc student
WIL: Telescope operations
Currently: TUBITAK-MAM, Türkiye
Ezgi Gülay
MSc student
WIL: Ground Magnetic Field, Geomagnetic Storm, Geomagnetically induced currents (GICs), SID, Space Weather Forecast
Currently: PhD student in University of Helsinki, Finland.
Pelin Erdemir
MSc Student
WIL: Solar wind drivers (HSS, CME), Geomagnetic Storm, Ionospheric Joule heating, Space Weather Forecast
Rana Betül Dağ
MSc Student
WIL: Geomagnetic Storms, Ground Magnetic Field Disturbances, Geomagnetically induced currents (GICs), Magnetotelluric measurements
Currently: Working in Turkish Airlines
Funda Ersavaş
Undergraduate
WIL: Plasma Depletion Layer, Dayside Magnetopause
Currently: Working in aerospace industries
Altansuvd Bold
MSc student
WIL: Particle tracing, MHD, Energetic particles
Currently: Working in another field in Ukraine