Biography
I am an AI Scientist at Helmholtz Munich, Institute for Intelligent Biotechnologies (iBIO), Munich, Germany. I joined the Ertürk Lab in May 2026, where my work focuses on Agentic AI for science — building systems that can plan, reason, and act across scientific workflows.
Before Munich, I worked as a Scientist at the Max Delbrück Center (MDC-BIMSB) in Berlin, Germany on structure-based drug design and bioinformatics. I studied Chemistry at METU in Ankara, Turkey, with research in graph representation learning, deep learning for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and de novo drug design.
Outside work, I enjoy running and cycling, and occasionally make educational animations in quantum chemistry with Manim.
Research interests
Agentic AI for science, machine learning for biology and chemistry, structure-based drug design, graph neural networks, and multi-omics data integration.
Professional career
- 05/2026–presentAI Scientist — Agentic AI, Helmholtz Munich, Institute for Intelligent Biotechnologies (Ertürk Lab), Munich, Germany
- 01/2024–04/2026Scientist — Structure-Based Drug Design, Max Delbrück Center (MDC-BIMSB), Bioinformatics & Omics Data Science Platform, Berlin, Germany
- 02/2023–06/2023Research Project — Graph Representation Learning for Chemistry (supervised by Antoine Marion), METU, Ankara, Turkey
- 07/2022–09/2022Summer Intern — Deep Learning for Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics (supervised by Ahmet Rifaioğlu and Jovan Tanevski), Heidelberg University Hospital, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Heidelberg, Germany
- 09/2021–11/2022Research Intern — de novo Drug Design using Adversarial Machine Learning (supervised by Tunca Doğan), Hacettepe University Biological Data Science Laboratory, Ankara, Turkey
- 03/2021–06/2023Research Project — Graph Representation Learning (supervised by Ahmet Rifaioğlu, 2021–2023, and Dominique Beaini, 2021–2022), Remote
Education
- 2023B.Sc. Chemistry, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey
Research
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