Sarp joined the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in July 2015. He is a Research Scientist at CSPAR in UAH. He is also the Program Coordinator of the UAH CSPAR/NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Heliophysics NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. He was awarded the S.T. Wu CSPAR Performance Award in 2019 for outstanding performance within the Center. His main research interests are solar physics, space weather, computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods, scientific code development, and parallel computing.

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2000

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Numerical methods
• Scientific code development
• Parallel computing

• Singh, T.; Yalim, M. S.; Pogorelov, N. V.; A data-constrained model for coronal mass ejections using the Graduated Cylindrical Shell method, The Astrophysical Journal, 864, 18, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aad3b4 (2018)

• Yalim, M. S.; Poedts, S.; Variations in EUV irradiance: Comparison between LYRA, ESP and SWAP integrated flux, Advances in Astronomy, Article ID 957461, p. 1, doi:10.1155/2014/957461 (2014)

• Lani, A.; Yalim, M. S.; Poedts, S.; A GPU-enabled finite volume solver for global magnetospheric simulations on unstructured grids, Computer Physics Communications, 185(10), p. 2538, doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2014.06.001 (2014)

• Seaton, D. B.; Berghmans, D.; Nicula, B.; Halain, J.-P.; De Groof, A.; Thibert, T.; Bloomfield, D. S.; Raftery, C. L.; Gallagher, P. T.; Auchère, F.; Defise, J.-M.; D'Huys, E.; Lecat, J.-H.; Mazy, E.; Rochus, P.; Rossi, L.; Schühle, U.; Slemzin, V.; Yalim, M. S.; Zender, J.; The SWAP EUV imaging telescope Part I: Instrument overview and pre-flight testing, Solar Physics, 286(1), p. 43, doi:10.1007/s11207-012-0114-6 (2013)

• Zender, J.; Berghmans, D.; Bloomfield, D. S.; Cabanas Parada, C.; Dammasch, I.; De Groof, A.; D'Huys, E.; Dominique, M.; Gallagher, P.; Giordanengo, B.; Higgins, P. A.; Hochedez, J.-F.; Yalim, M. S.; Nicula, B.; Pylyser, E.; Sanchez-Duarte, L.; Schwehm, G.; Seaton, D. B.; Stanger, A.; Stegen, K.; Willems, S.; The Projects for Onboard Autonomy (PROBA2) science centre: Sun Watcher Using APS Detectors and Image Processing (SWAP) and Large-Yield Radiometer (LYRA) science operations and data products, Solar Physics, 286(1), p. 93, doi:10.1007/s11207-012-00336 (2013)

• Yalim, M. S.; Vanden Abeele, D.; Lani, A.; Quintino, T.; Deconinck, H.; A finite volume implicit time integration method for solving the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics for the hyperbolic divergence cleaning approach, Journal of Computational Physics, 230(15), p. 6136, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2011.04.020 (2011)