Anatolian Phusiologos • Physicist • Poet • Writer • Rebel of Science
Born in Istanbul in 1994, Burak Cem Coşkun graduated with distinction from the Physics Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University in 2017. He conducted research on neutron stars and nuclear physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. While pursuing his master’s studies in theoretical astrophysics at the University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) in Germany, he continued his graduate education at Sabancı University. His work has focused on the interaction between ultra-dense neutron superfluids and exotic nuclei. Coşkun writes popular science and history of science articles for the magazine Herkese Bilim ve Teknoloji. He translated Feynman, a graphic biography published in Turkish by Alfa Publishing. He is the author of the science fiction works Kusur (The Defect), Işık Getiren (Light Bringer), Bilim ve Şiir (Science & Poetry), Uglata, and Hayal Krizi & Gün’düşü Hikâyeleri (Dream Attack & Daydream Fictions), all published by KDY. He is also the author of Magnetic Monopole Dreams in Blue Anatolian Nights, a Volume II selection of Science & Poetry. His science fiction stories have appeared in various anthologies and printed collections. His piece “Trojan 137” was included in the Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction Stories, the first English-language Turkish science fiction anthology published by TPLondon. In 2025, he published his bilingual philosophical manifesto Doğa Üzerine ve Yönteme Karşı – On Nature & Against Method, which deals with the philosophy of science. In his works, he frequently blends physics with poetry, weaving scientific imagination into literary expression. He is also the creator of the sci-fi & fantasy universe called “Tales of The Monsters of Blue Anatolia - IYON 7”. His poems are also regularly published in the magazine Yerli Bilimkurgu Yükseliyor.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7779-8378
Improving the skills for understanding the physics behind the compact objects in the universe, widening the knowledge of astro-material science, and investigating the relations between high energy astrophysics and particle physics. Gaining a deep understanding of the nucleon-nucleon interactions (at denser and normal regimes), superfluidity, and superconductivity through advanced quantum mechanics and eventually finding a way to describe the interactions between the super-dense neutron superfluid and a highly complex inside-out nuclei.
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Research interests include neutron star physics, exotic nuclei interactions, theoretical astrophysics, condensed matter physics, many-body physics, philosophy of science, history of science & technology.
Email: burakccoskun@outlook.com
Email: coskunburak@itu.edu.tr
Email: bccoskun@kth.se
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Burak Cem Coşkun, as a founding thinker of the “Science and Poetry” movement that blends the mathematical precision of modern theoretical physics with the ancient wisdom of Anatolia, builds an unshakable intellectual bridge between rational Logos and intuitive Mythos. Reading nature’s irrational ratios as the “geometry of truth,” the author brings scientific data from the nuclear structures in the depths of neutron stars to the holographic boundaries of de Sitter space together with the legacy of Ionian sages such as Thales and Anaxagoras, and offers an original vision of a “Blue Civilization.” His approach, which he conceptualizes as Postulate (ROSE – Randomly Organized Structural Entities), represents a revolutionary stance that unites Kandinsky’s genius of abstraction and C. T. R. Wilson’s cloud chamber that made cosmic rays visible within the same cosmic pattern, redefining science by removing it from the coldness of laboratories and situating it once again within the shared imagination of dervishes and scientists. In this respect, Coşkun is not merely a physicist or a writer, but a pioneering architect of ideas who reconstructs the language of the universe through the lyrical power of Turkish and who, with the dream of an Ionian Institute of Physics on the western coasts of Anatolia, ferments the future already in the present.
