Furkan Semih Dündar

Class of 2025

Furkan Semih Dündar finished high school at Sakarya Fen Lisesi in 2007. As he gained rank 777 in the national university exam in Turkey, he chose to study physics at Bilkent University with a full scholarship. He graduated with the number-one ranking in the physics department in 2012. Then he moved on to Middle East Technical University to study quantum gravity and wrote an MSc thesis titled "The Firewall Paradox," and graduated in 2014. Between 2016 and 2018, he did his PhD at Boğaziçi University with a thesis titled "Quantum Phenomena and Shape Dynamics." Throughout his higher education, he was supported by TÜBİTAK scholarships at each level. Since 2019, he has been an assistant professor at Amasya University.