Kerim Demirel, PhD

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

• PHYS105 - General Physics I (Fall 2025)
• PHYS210 - Mathematical Methods in Physics II (Summer 2025)

Courses Assisted

• PHYS105 - General Physics I (Lab)
• PHYS106 - General Physics II (Lab)
• PHYS407 - Particle Physics I
• PHYS408 - Particle Physics II
• PHYS481 - Special Relativity
• PHYS482 - General Relativity
• PHYS503 - Methods of Mathematical Physics I (grad. course)
• PHYS504 - Methods of Mathematical Physics II (grad. course)
• PHYS507 - Quantum Mechanics I (grad. course)

Bachelor's Thesis Supervision

• Hacer Şafak (2025) - Inflation Driven by Scalar Fields
• Esra Makara (2026) - Mathematical Investigation of Sagnac Effect in the Framework of Relativity and Classical Kinematics
• Ahmet Emin Hadimioğlu (2026) - Theoretical foundations and cosmological implications of f(R) gravity

• A short review on cosmic inflation. [PDF]
• Demirel, K., & Tekin, B. (2024). Anomaly induced inflation in the minimal quartic extension of Einstein’s gravity.
  The European Physical Journal C , 84 (12), 1280. [PDF]