• Breakthrough Prize, 2020 • Chair, Astrophysics Advisory Committee (APAC), NASA, 2019 • Fellowship,
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2016 • Visiting Miller Professorship,
University of California Berkeley, 2014 • Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society, 2013 • Bart J. Bok Prize,
Harvard University, 2010 • Lucas Award, San Diego Astronomy Association, 2010 • Visiting Scholar Fellowship,
Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Foundation, 2007 •
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002–2005 • Distinguished Scholar Award, Daughters of Atatürk Foundation, 2003 • Keck Fellowship,
Institute for Advanced Study, 2002 • Van Vleck Fellowship,
Harvard University, 1999 • Kostrup Prize,
Niels Bohr Institute, 1997 • Niels Bohr Institute Graduate Fellowship, 1996–1997 • Applied Mathematics Faculty Award,
Columbia University, 1996 • Fu Foundation Scholarship,
Columbia University, 1994–1996 • Research Fellowship,
CERN, 1995 • Turkish Health and Education Foundation Scholarship, 1992-1994 ==References==