About
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Maritime Engineering Group at the University of Southampton, where I teach undergraduate Hydrodynamics and postgraduate Offshore Engineering and Analysis. My path into academia has been shaped by a long-standing fascination with fluid motion and its interaction with engineered systems, particularly in marine environments.
My research focuses on experimental fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on fluid–structure interactions in unsteady flows. I am particularly interested in hydrofoils and bluff bodies, and in understanding how flow separation and vortex dynamics can be manipulated through passive and active control strategies. The broader motivation behind my work is to improve hydrodynamic efficiency while reducing drag and hydroacoustic noise in marine applications. To explore these questions, my group uses advanced experimental techniques, including high-resolution flow diagnostics, high-speed imaging, and detailed force and pressure measurements, allowing us to resolve complex flow physics and connect them to practical engineering design.
I was born in Turkey and began my academic journey in Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. I completed my MSc at Boğaziçi University in 2014, where my interest in fluid mechanics began to deepen. I then moved to the United States to pursue doctoral studies at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where I worked on a bioinspired fluids problem, collective swimming (fish schooling), to understand and characterize multi-body (multi-hydrofoil) flow interactions and vortex dynamics, and developed my expertise in experimental fluid dynamics.
In 2020, I joined the University of Southampton as a postdoctoral researcher in Aerospace Engineering. Since January 2023, I have been part of the Maritime Engineering Group as a full-time academic, continuing to develop my research and teaching in hydrodynamics as maritime engineering applications.
I am currently the MSc in Maritime Engineering Science programme lead and admissions tutor. I am also a member of the EPSRC Engineering Early Career Researcher Forum.