An academic at Yeditepe University, Istanbul since 2003.
phD earned in Illinois Institute of Technology in 2000.
phD thesis title was delamination and fracture in thin-films systems under thermal loading.
Used the software, FEAP (finite element analysis program by R.L. Taylor from UC Berkeley) since 1997 for finite elements.
Since then, teaching, academic capacity building and advising, and currently an active researcher in computational biomechanics.
Linux user since 1994.