Kadri Yakut is a Professor of Astrophysics whose research focuses on the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength study of binary systems. He works with a wide range of binaries—including interacting binary stars, contact systems, binaries with a neutron star or black hole, double compact objects, and systems in stellar clusters—using them as laboratories to examine both microphysical processes (such as energy transport, heat transfer, and internal structure) and macrophysical phenomena (including angular momentum loss, mass loss, and mass transfer). His research combines observational, theoretical, and numerical methods to investigate the links between stellar evolution, binary interactions, and their signatures across the gravitational and electromagnetic spectrum.