DEGREES:

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, METU, 2003
M.S. in Computational Solid Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, 2005
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2011
Joined in 2015

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Theoretical and computational mechanics of solids and structures, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, physics-based plasticity modeling (e.g. Crystal plasticity and strain gradient crystal plasticity), material forming, plastic anisotropy, dislocation mechanics and grain boundaries, fracture and damage mechanisms of solids, cohesive zone modeling, irradiation damage, creep and fatigue of engineering materials, energy materials, numerical analysis and Finite Element Method (FEM)