Tülün Ergin, PhD

I am an Assistant Professor at Wright State University, Physics Department since August 2025. Previously, I was a senior researcher at Michigan State University (MSU), Astronomy and Physics Department. For the last two years, my research has been concentrated on the analysis of HAWC data from novae and multi-wavelength analysis of unidentified TeV-UHE gamma-ray sources, which are mainly Galactic in origin, e.g. pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants, star forming regions. I am also a member of SWGO collaboration, and I recently joined the NewAthena and COSI collaborations. 

At Wright State University, I am working on a new Astronomy and Astrophysics minor program for the Physics Department, besides teaching Physics and Astronomy courses for undergraduates. Previously, I taught Stellar Astrophysics and High-energy Astrophysics at the Middle East Technical University (METU) Physics Department, Ankara/Turkey from 2018 to 2021 as an adjunct faculty. From 2021 to 2023, I taught General Physics at the Northern Cyprus Campus of Middle East Technical University (METU NCC) as an associate professor. During this period, I continued my research about the analysis of the Fermi-LAT data associated with supernova remnants (SNRs) and molecular clouds (MCs), while contributing to SWGO. 

From 2012 to 2021, I worked as a chief researcher at TUBITAK Space Technologies Research Institute, Ankara/Turkey, where I worked as a member of the Reliability, Safety and Radiation group. Between 2010 and 2012, I worked at Bogazici University Physics Department, where my research focused on SNRs interacting with MCs using Fermi-LAT data and archival data of various X-ray satellites (e.g. Chandra).

From 2008 to 2010, I was as a research associate at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where I worked on mapping all of the molecular clouds at high latitudes using the 1.2 meter millimeter-wave telescope (called 'Mini'). I have been an associate member of the VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) collaboration since the end of my postdoc period (2005-2008) at VERITAS. I also worked in another imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) experiment located in the Southern Hemisphere, H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System), as a Ph.D. (completed in 2005 at Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany).