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 explore 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. When I am not wrangling with models in the theoretical world of wonders, I contribute observational studies of stellar magnetic activity. Thanks to my recent years of teaching and supervising in (astro)informatics, I enriched my toolbox with machine-learning methods. I recently worked on modelling organic reaction networks in ocean-world interiors. Click on the links below to see my research summaries.
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).
NEWS: In June 2025, I co-organised an ISSI Workshop at the International Space Science Institute (Bern, Switzerland), entitled Stellar Magnetism and its Impact on (Exo)planets.
You can follow me on Twitter and ResearchGate, or write to me directly: isik (mps.mpg.de).
🔭 Research
💦 Astrobiology of ocean worlds
My ADS record of publications.
- 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!).
🖋️ Check out Astronomy Picture of the Day
Contact
🏫 Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
📧 isik (mps.mpg.de)
☎️ +49-551-384979-402