Dr. Kerim Demirel

Researcher & Teaching Assistant @ Department of Physics
Room: 332
Phone: x5068

METU Profile: https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/demirelk

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics @ Middle East Technical University (2018-2025)
--- Thesis: "Inflation in modified gravity theories". (Supervisor: Bayram Tekin)

• M.Sc. in High Energy Physics & Cosmology @ Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2015-2017)
--- Thesis: "Inflation in fluid models". (Supervisors: Sergei Odintsov & Emilio Elizalde)

• B.Sc. in Physics @ Middle East Technical University (2011-2015)

Courses given

• PHYS210 - Mathematical Methods in Physics II

Courses assisted

• PHYS105-106 - General Physics I & II (Lab)
• PHYS407-408 - Particle Physics I & II
• PHYS481-482 - Special & General Relativity
• PHYS503-504 - Methods of Mathematical Physics I & II (grad. course)
• PHYS507 - Quantum Mechanics I (grad. course)

A short review on cosmic inflation. [PDF]

Publications

• Demirel, Kerim, and Bayram Tekin. "Anomaly induced inflation in the minimal quartic extension of Einstein’s gravity." 
  The European Physical Journal C 84.12 (2024): 1-17. DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13611-x