Welcome!
I am Emre Işık (pron. ‘Ishik’), currently a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany. Between 2019-2023 I worked as an associate professor of astroinformatics at the Dept. of Computer Science, Turkish-German University, in Beykoz, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Through numerical simulations and data analysis, I am exploring the physical mechanisms (mostly through MHD simulations) underlying the observed magnetic activity patterns on the Sun and other Sun-like stars, in comparison with observations. Thanks to my recent years of teaching and supervising in (astro)informatics, I am somewhat machine-learning-ready. I am also interested in astrobiology, and recently started working on modelling organic reaction favourability in ocean-world interiors. Click on the links below to see my research summaries.
You can follow me on Twitter and ResearchGate, or write to me directly: isik (mps.mpg.de).
🔭 Research
💦 Astrobiology of ocean worlds (coming soon)
My ADS record of publications.
I am serving as the elected vice president of the Inter-Division Commission E4 “Impact of Magnetic Activity on Solar and Stellar Environments” of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
- Recent/current collaborators
- S.K. Solanki, R.H. Cameron, MPI f. Solar System Research, A.I. Shapiro and the SOLVe/REVEAL group;
- H.V. Şenavcı, Ankara University
- M. Melwani Daswani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Past collaborators
- M. Schüssler (PhD advisor), D. Schmitt, V. Holzwarth, MPI for Solar System Research
- J. Jiang, Beihang University, China
🏛️ Teaching
🧑🏻🏫 Courses I gave along my career
🖋️ Picture at the top of the page: detail from a Hittite Sun Disc replica (photo: E. Işık, location: home!).
🖋️ Remember Astronomy Picture of the Day? Such a well-maintained and good old page of daily exciting space images and explanations…
Contact
🏫 Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
📧 isik (mps.mpg.de)
☎️ +49-551-384979-402