Murat Sivis is a senior researcher and project leader at the University of Göttingen and the Max-Planck Institute for multidisciplinary sciences in Göttingen. He received his undergraduate education in physics at the University of Göttingen and earned a PhD in Physics in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Claus Ropers. In 2016 he was a visiting researcher at the National Research Council Ottawa in the group of Prof. Paul Corkum.

He is part of the Göttingen Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy (Gö-UTEM) project, where he studies electron-light interactions.

Dr. Sivis authored one book chapter and 23 journal articles. He received the Dr. Berliner-Dr. Ungewitter PhD thesis prize (2014) and the award for outstanding scientific publications by an early career scientist (2014) of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony science prize (2019).