Born: 05/28/74
Education:
Ph.D. Physics 2002
University of California, San Diego
M. Sc. Physics
2000 University of California, San
Diego
B.S. Physics
1996
Middle East Technical University,
Ankara/TURKEY
(With high honors, 2nd in class)
Honors/Awards:
Turkish Academy of Sciences, Successful Young Scientist Award (TUBA - GEBIP)
NATO A1 Fellow
TUBITAK[1]
Graduate Scholarship (1996 – 1997)
TUBITAK Undergraduate
Scholarship (1992 – 1996)
Experience:
Jan. 2008 – Now : Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, Faculty
Sep. 2005 – Jan 2008 : Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, Visiting Professor
2003 – 2005 (Sep) : UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA -
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
1998 - 2002: UC San Diego, La
Jolla, CA - Graduate Research Assistant
1997 - 1998: UC San
Diego, La Jolla, CA – Graduate Teaching Assistant
1996 -
1997: Middle East Technical University, Ankara – Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Accepted Grant Proposals:
EC FP 6 Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant (€ 80,000), PI, 2005, "Data Mining with the INTEGRAL Observatory".
EC FP 6 Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge (€ 1,100,000), Co-I, 2006, "Astrophysics of Neutron Stars".
TUBA GEBIP (YTL 45,000), PI, 2007
TUBITAK Career Award (YTL 130,000), PI, 2007, "Multiwavelength Observations of Black Holes".
Calspace mini-grant proposal ($ 15,000), 2003, Co-I, "XRIP: The X-ray Imaging Polarimeter".
Research Interests:
Astrophysics of compact objects, astrophysical instrumentation, high energy astrophysics.Accepted Observing Proposals:
1. XMM AO-7, "Constraining the Hard State Accretion Geometry for Black Hole Binaries", Tomsick, J., Kalemci, E., Kaaret, P., Migliari, S., Corbel, S.
2-3. SWIFT AO-3, AO-4 "Compact Jets from Galactic Black Holes", Tomsick, J., Migliari, S., Markoff, S., Bailyn, C., Corbel, S., Fender, R., Kalemci, E., Kaaret, P.
4. SUZAKU AO-3, "Constraining Models for the Black Hole Accretion in the Hard State", Tomsick, J., Kaaret, P., Kalemci, E., Migliari, S., Corbel, S.
5. INTEGRAL AO-4, 1Ms (Key Programme), "Search
for the neutron-capture gamma-ray lines from 4U 1820 −30 ",
Boggs, S. E., Kalemci, E.,
Calıskan, S., Bildsten L.
6. INTEGRAL AO-4, 1Ms (Key Programme), "Monitoring the peculiar persistent LMXB
GRS 1758-258",
PI: Pottschmidt K.
7. XMM AO-5, 20 ks, "Understanding the nature of Seyfert 2
Galaxy VV 780- IC4518",
Kalemci, E., Tomsick, J.A, Rothschild, R. A, Boggs, S. E., Fossati, G.
8. INTEGRAL AO-3, 2.5 Ms, "Detecting Positron Annihilation Radiation and Hard X-ray Emission from Type Ia Supernova Remnants",
PI: Milne, P.
9. XMM AO-4, 20 ks, "Simultaneous XMM-Newton - RXTE observations of 1E1740.7-2942",
Kalemci, E., Tomsick, J.A, Rothschild, R. A., Smith, D. M.
10. RXTE AO-10, 15 ks, "Simultaneous XMM - RXTE observations to investigate the effect of scattering halo in timing properties of black holes",
Kalemci, E., Tomsick, J.A, Rothschild, R. A.
11 -14. RXTE AO-9, AO-10, AO-11, AO-12, 462 ks, "Multi-Wavelength Observations of Black Hole X-Ray Transients During Outburst Decay",
Tomsick, J.A, Kalemci, E., Corbel, S., Kaaret, P.
15-17. SPITZER Cycles-1,2,3, 12 hrs, "Compact Jets from Galactic Black Holes",
PI: Tomsick, J. A.
18-19. INTEGRAL AO-2, AO-3, 1 GRB, "Polarization measurements of prompt Gamma-ray and X-ray emission in Gamma-ray bursts (and SGR flares) with INTEGRAL",
PI: Kouvelitou, C.
20. RXTE AO-8, 362 ks, "Multi-Wavelength Observations of Black Hole X-Ray Transients During Outburst Decay",
Tomsick, J.A, Kalemci, E., Corbel, S.,
Kaaret,
P.
21. ADP 2002, "X-ray and Radio Studies of Black Hole X-ray Transients During Outburst Decay", Tomsick, J.A, Kalemci, E., Corbel, S., Kaaret, P.
22. RXTE AO-7, 180 ks, "High Frequency QPO Search and Multi-Wavelength Observations of Black Hole X-ray Transients During Outburst Decay",
Kalemci, E., Tomsick, J.A, Rothschild, R.E, Corbel, S., Kaaret, P.
23. RXTE AO-7, 300 ks, "Black Hole X-ray Transients During Outburst Decay", Tomsick, J.A., Kaaret, P., Kalemci, E.
24. RXTE AO-6, 160 ks, "Multi-Wavelength Observations of Black Hole Candidate X-ray Transients During Outburst Decay", Tomsick, J.A., Kaaret, P., Corbel, S., Kalemci, E.
25. Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center, 10000 cpu-hours, "Understanding Spectral and Temporal Properties of Black Hole Accretion", Kalemci, E., Tomsick, J.A.
26. Turkish National Observatory, 150 cm, 1.5 night, "Mass Measurement of the Black Hole Candidate SXT, XTE J1118+480", Balman, S., Kiziloglu, U., Gelino, D., Kalemci, E., Tomsick, J.A.
27. Turkish National Observatory, 150 cm, 1.5 night, "TOO Observation of a black hole binary in outburst", Gogus, E., Kalemci, E., Tomsick, J.A.
28-29. Turkish National Observatory, 150 cm, 2 nights, "Optical observations of IGR sources", Kalemci, E., Tomsick, J.A., Gogus, E., Kiziloglu, U.
Other Experience:
Peer Reviewer for TUBITAK.
Peer Reviewer for RXTE Cycles 9 and 10.
Reviewer
for APJ
Collaborator in SPI / INTEGRAL Science Team
Visiting scientist at CASS - UCSD, San Diego, in June
2006.
Visiting scientist at Sabanci University, Istanbul,
Turkey,
several times
Visiting scientist at Centre d'Etude Spatiale
des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France, in October 2003
Visiting
scientist at University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany in February
and June 2001
Visiting scientist at Leicester University,
Leicester, England during September 1997.
President of the
Turkish Student Association at UCSD, 2001-2002.
[1] The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey