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Lucas Ertugrul
Physicist*, Developer & Researcher
3rd year at Imperial College London, combining theoretical physics with AI/ML development and experimental research
*I'll call myself a physicist when I have a PhD
Who am I to have a website?
No one (yet). But I'm working on it. I love all things physics, engineering and computing. I consider myself a generalist and incurable consumer of media. I am always building something, physically or virtually, be it useful or more often than not, not. If you are a plasma physicist reading this, feel free to hire me for a summer internship :)
Experience & Education
Education
MSci Physics
Imperial College London
October 2023 - July 2027
London, UK
- • 1st & 2nd Year - First Class Honours Average
A Levels & Leadership
Harrow School Online
August 2020 - July 2022
London, UK
- • A Levels: A* Mathematics, A* Further Mathematics, A* Physics, A* EPQ - "AI, The Last Invention?"
- • Leadership: Physics Research Club Leader, Advanced Physics Society Leader
- • SAT: Scored 1550 on the SAT (790 Math, 760 English)
Research Experience
Undergraduate Researcher
Imperial College London
- • Developed novel triggering techniques for pulsed power applications and plasma physics under Prof. Simon Bland, designing solid-state spiral generators for high-current systems including x-pinches and the 1.4 MA MAGPIE facility
- • Fabricated 3D printed high-pressure spark gap switches and modeled high-voltage circuits (tens of kV) using SPICE simulation to optimize switching performance
- • Assisted in synchrotron beamline experiments at ESRF (Grenoble) investigating Richtmyer-Meshkov instability mitigation, contributing to PhD thesis research
Professional & Leadership Experience
Co-Owner, Part-time Manager
- • Co-owner of a family run AI-driven online personalized perfume startup
- • B2C for verticals such as weddings, corporate gifts, and events etc.
- • Responsible for strategy, marketing materials, and onboarding process
Teaching Assistant - Communicating Physics at Westminster School
Imperial College London
- • Selected as 1 of 20 students for Communicating Physics module and sole student assigned to Westminster School
- • Developed and led computational physics after-school club, teaching numerical methods and Python programming to 5th/6th form students
- • Created educational workbooks on Fourier Analysis and Rocket Equation modeling, guiding students through real-world physics applications
Head of Fleming House
Harrow School Online
- • Led and mentored students as head of house, responsible for academic support, pastoral care, and house community development
- • Organized inter-house competitions, study groups, and social events while maintaining high academic standards across the house
Projects
A collection of my work spanning computational physics, machine learning, and engineering
JAMES (Automated Lab Book Generator)
January 2025 - May 2025
Architected multimodal system generating lab books from recorded sessions using speech recognition, speaker diarization, and LLMs with RAG knowledge base for contextual understanding across experiments.
Physics Informed Deep Learning
May 2024 - July 2024
Developed a physics-informed deep learning system to identify governing equations of non-linear dynamical systems and researching the efficacy of different neural network architectures and hyperparameters.
Sentiment Analysis Trading Bot
June 2024 - December 2024
Used Alpaca API to get stock data and news articles.
Interdisciplinary Research Computing
January 2025 - March 2025
Runner-up Project Winner - Using OpenFOAM to model the effect of various pathologies on blood flow in the human aorta.
AgriView - LauzHack
November 2024 - Janary 2025
Participated in the LauzHack hackathon in Lausanne, developing an application that uses NLP interfacing with an computer vision image segmentation model (PASTIS) to predict crop yield based on open source satellite imagery. Still in development on the side.
Analogue Computing
January 2024 - May 2024
Designed and built an analogue computer circuit for solving second-order differential equations
Robot Arm Control System
November 2025 - Present
Programmed a microcontroller to control a robot arm with all control code written in assembly language
Will It Blend
2024 - Present
Automated Blender rendering pipeline with batch processing, GPU acceleration, and cloud sync capabilities.
Gallery
A collection of images showcasing my work and experiences
Spiral Generator Armadillo
Experiment to test the performance of the spiral generator with metallic glass as a core.
Vaporised Copper
Pulsed Power Experiment at ESRF investigating RM instability - purple is vaporised copper wire!
Beamline Imaging at ESRF
Imaging a wire array implosion studying RM instability between gelatin and air.
Plasma goggles
I just think they look cool
X-Ray Scan
X-ray resolution test from an X-Pinch
Setting up a load in MAGPIE
Trying not to break anything
Simulation of a Magnetic Pendulum
Chaotic pendulum simulation using Runge-Kutta methods
Predicting the future of a chaotic system
Spooky LSTM neural network predicting the future of a chaotic system
My Collarbone Ex Vivo
3D print produced from a CT scan of my (broken) collarbone, with the plate and screws.
UV Printing Jigs
UV printing jigs for reproducibly printing on perfume bottles for leparfum.ai
Technical Skills
A diverse skill set spanning theoretical physics, software development, and experimental research
Programming & Development
AI & Machine Learning
Applied Mathematics
Scientific Computing
Engineering & Design
Get In Touch
Interested in collaboration, research opportunities, or just want to chat about physics and technology? Feel free to reach out!