I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Networks and Optimization group at CWI, supported by the Alain Bensoussan Fellowship through ERCIM. My main research interest is on extremal and structural graph theory. I also like working on discrete problems in probability theory.

I completed my PhD at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Viresh Patel. My research was supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (COFUND grant no. 945045) and the NWO Gravitation project NETWORKS (grant no. 024.002.003). 

Prior to this, I earned my M.Sc. in Mathematics in 2020 at Boğaziçi University, where I was supervised by Ümit Işlak. In 2017, I completed a double major in Industrial Engineering and Mathematics at the same university.

Additional details about my background and research can be found in my Resume.

E-mail: m.akif.[surname][at]cwi[dot]nl