Academic Staff
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Ahmet Selim DURNA
Assist. Prof., Department of Aerospace Engineering
Vice Dean, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Ph.D 2018, ITU, Aero&Astro Engineering
Research Areas: Hypersonic flows, shock wave, shock wave boundary layer interactions, computational aerodynamics
Office: Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics No:142
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2119
Cem Kolbakır
Assist. Prof., Department of Aerospace Engineering
Vice Dean, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Ph. D. 2019, Iowa State University
Research Areas: Aerodynamic, Plasma Flow Control, Icing
Selected Studies: An experimental study on different plasma actuator layouts for aircraft icing mitigation (2020), A comparison study on the thermal effects in DBD plasma actuation and electrical heating for aircraft icing mitigation (2018), An experimental study on the thermal characteristics of NS-DBD plasma actuation and application for aircraft icing mitigation (2019), An experimental study on the thermal effects of duty-cycled plasma actuation pertinent to aircraft icing mitigation (2019)
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2134
İlyas KARASU
Assoc. Prof., Department of Aerospace Engineering
Head of Department, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Education: Ph. D. 2015, Çukurova University
Research Areas: Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Flow Control Techniques, Flow Measurement Techniques, Wind Energy
Selected Studies: Tumse, S., Tasci, M. O., Karasu, I., Sahin, B. (2021), “Effect of ground on flow characteristics and aerodynamic performance of a non-slender delta wing”, Aerospace Science and Technology, 110, 106475. Karasu, I., Tumse, S., Tasci, M. O., Sahin, B., Akilli, H. (2021), “Near-surface particle image velocimetry measurements over a yawed slender delta wing”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 0954410021999556. Karasu, İ., Durhasan, T. (2020), “Flow Characteristics over Double Delta Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers”, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 33(4), 04020038.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Room 144.
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2132
Aydemir Güralp URAL
Assist. Prof., Department of Aerospace Engineering
Vice Head of Department, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Education: PhD. 2011, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
Research Areas: Composite materials, tribology, nanotechnology, aerospace materials
Selected Studies: Ural, A. G., Performance en frottement de composites alumine-metal avec ou sans nanotubes de carbone densifiés par frittage flash: Identification des conditions de grippage et des mécanismes d’usure. Yahiaoui, M., Denape, J., Paris, J. Y., Ural, A. G., Alcalà, N., & Martinez, F. J. Wear dynamics of a TPU/steel contact under reciprocal sliding. Wear, 315(1-2), 103-114. Ural, G., Paris J.-Y., and Denape J. Role des nanoparticules et/ou de nanotubes de carbone sur le compportement en fretting de composites à matrice alumine. Journées Internationales Francophones de Tribologie. Ural, G., Ikhlef, A., Dirras, G., Bouaziz, O., & Chevalier, J. P. Elaboration par mécanosynthèse et CIC d’alliages Fe-Mg hors d’équilibre et évaluation de sound propriétés mécaniques
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2113
Office Hours: Monday 12.00-13.00
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Gökhan KAŞTAŞ
Prof., Department of Aerospace Engineering
Education: Ph. D. 2010, Ondokuz Mayıs University
Research Areas: Atomic and Molecular Physics
Selected Studies: “Polymeric cyano dicyanonickelate II cyano trans bis N 2 hydroxyethyl ethylenediamine cadmium II” (2004), “Structural and spectroscopic studies on cadmium complex of a biogenic amine histamine” (2010). More…
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2126
Melahat CİHAN
Assist. Prof., Department of Aerospace Engineering
Education: Ph. D. 2017, Istanbul Technical University
Research Areas: Rocket propulsion systems, spacecraft system design
Selected Studies: Dynamic stability of spinning launch vehicles modeled as thin-walled composite beams, Cihan M., Eken S., Kaya MO, Acta Mechanica, DOI 10.1007/s00707-017-1944-y, 2017. Vibration and stability analysis of a spinning thin-walled composite beam carrying a rigid body, Eken S., Cihan M., Kaya MO, Archive of Applied Mechanics, DOI 10.1007/s00419-020-01790-4, 2020. Office: Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Room 133.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2114
Office Hours: Tuesday 14.00-15.00
Emrullah ÖZER
Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Education: MSc
Research Areas: Computer Aided Design Programs, Computer Aided Modeling (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM),
Selected Studies: He completed his master’s degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Manufacturing and Construction field of Cumhuriyet University, Institute of Science in 2017 with the thesis titled “Comparison of butt and overlap type joints in welded designs with numerical method”.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, D246 /Composite Workshop
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2136
Office Hours: Wednesday 13.00-14.00 (Zoom)
Aydın AMIREGHBALI
Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Education: PhD 2023, ODTÜ, Aerospace Engineering
Research Areas: Contact mechanics, Tribology, Fracture mechanics
Selected Studies: A. Amireghbali and D. Coker, “Frictional Dynamics Using Maxwell-Slip Model”, 14th Virtual Congress WCCM & ECCOMAS 2020, January 11-15, 2021., A. Amireghbali and D. Coker, “Tikhonov regularization for the modified mapping collocation method applied to circumferentıal crack in a curved beam”, 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), Barcelona, Spain, July 20-25, 2014., Amireghbali and D. Coker, 2014, “Elastic Analysis of a Circumferential Crack in an Isotropic Curved Beam Using the Modified Mapping-Collocation Method”, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 264, 131–138.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Room:47
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2127
Mehmet Talha TINASTEPE
Research Assistant, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi, M. Sc. (Continues)
Research Areas: Bolted, bonded and hybrid joints, composite materials, FEM
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Gökçen JURNAL
Research Assistant, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Istanbul Technical University, M. Sc. (Continues)
Research Areas: Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Plasma Aerodynamics, Flow Control, Gust Mitigation
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Fatih SARAÇ
Research Assistant, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Samsun University, M. Sc. (Continues)
Research Areas: Computational fluid dynamics, fluid-structural interactions, turbulence, turbomachines
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Department of Meteorological Engineering
Hakan AKSU
Assoc. Prof. Dr., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Head of Department, Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD, Hacettepe University (2012)
Research Areas: hydrometeorology, climate change, extreme precipitation, drought, remote sensing
Selected Studies: He is the coordinator of the TUBITAK project, the effect of climate change and variability on the Black Sea extreme precipitation. He has academic publications on the detection or accuracy assessment of various hydrometeorological parameters (evapotranspiration and precipitation) from satellite images. He continues to study on projects, publications and academic studies on drought.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, D125
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2124
Office Hours: Everyday 11:00-12:00
Meral DEMİRTAŞ
Assoc. Prof. Dr., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD., 1997, University of Reading, England
Research Areas:atmospheric dynamics and modelling; weather forecasting models and multiple forecasting systems; severe weather events; climate variability and change; atmospheric blocking; dynamics and diagnosis of cold and heat waves
Selected Scientific Studies: At University of Reading (England), Department of Meteorology; She wrote her master’s thesis on “Frontal Cyclones”. At the end of her doctoral studies at the same university, she wrote her doctoral thesis on “Sensitivity of Short-Range Forecasts to Local Potential Vorticity Modifications”.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 127
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2123
Office Hours: Wednesday 13.00-14.00
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Bihter DURNA
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD., 2019. Istanbul Technical University
Research Areas: energy, renewable energy resources
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 128
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Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-13:00 (Zoom)
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Sema ARIMAN
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD., Ondokuz Mayıs University (2019)
Research Areas: environmental chemistry, environmental sedimentology, water pollution, remote sensing, artificial neural networks, effects of climatechange and climate variability
Selected Studies: Some of her articles are titled “Determination of inactive water quality variables by MODIS data: A case study in the Kızılırmak Delta-Balik Lake, Turkey”, (2021), “Chlorophyll-a Retrieval From Sentinel-2 Images Using Convolutional Neural Network Regression” (2021), “Hierarchical Spatial-Spectral Features for the Chlorophyll-a Estimation of Lake Balik, Turkey”, (2020). “Monitoring Sensitive Areas for Water Pollution: Kızılırmak Delta-Balık Lake”, (2019). She is the researcher on behalf of Samsun University in the Horizon 2020 project called “Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (SCORE)” with a budget of 10 million Euros.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, D-126
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2122
Office Hours: Wednesday 13:00-14:00
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Neslihan BEDEN
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD., Ondokuz Mayıs University (2019)
Research Areas: flood modeling, hydrological/hydraulic modeling, flood damage/risk analysis, trend analysis, climate change and adaptation
Selected Studies: She wrote her doctoral thesis named “Flood analysis and flood damage assessment of the Cevizdere Basin based on numerical modeling systems” (2019). ”Estimation of the local financial costs of flood damage with different methodologies in Unye (Ordu), Turkey “ (2021), “Flood map production and evaluation of flood risks in situations of insufficient flow data”(2021), “Flood hazard assessment of a flood-prone intensively urbanized area – A case study from Samsun Province, Turkey”(2020), “Trend Analysis of SPI and PNI Drought Indexes in Samsun Province”(2020), “Analysis of Annual, Seasonal, and Monthly Trends of Climatic Data: A Case Study of Samsun“(2018) are some of her articles. She is the coordinator on behalf of Samsun University in the Horizon 2020 project called “Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (SCORE)” with a budget of 10 million Euros.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 137
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Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday 11:00-12:00 (Zoom)
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Veli YAVUZ
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Ph. D., Istanbul Technical University(2022)
Research Areas: Synoptic meteorology, aviation meteorology, atmospheric dynamics, severe weather events, atmosphere-ocean interactions
Selected Studies: Yavuz, V., Lupo, A.R., Fox, N.I. & Deniz, A. (2022) “Statistical characteristics of the sea-effect snow events over the western Black Sea”, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 150, 955-968.
Yavuz, V., Lupo, A.R., Fox, N.I. & Deniz, A. (2022) “A long-term analysis of thundersnow events over the Marmara Region, Turkey”, Natural Hazards, 114, 367-387.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 129
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Mehmet Seren KORKMAZ
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: M.Sc. 2015 Istanbul Technical University, PhD., 2017. Istanbul Technical University (2023)
Research Areas: hydrometeorological modeling, geographic information systems, data analysis
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Room No:124
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2133
Office Hours: Everyday 12:00 – 13:00
Şule HALİLOĞLU
Research Assistant, Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Ph.D, Istanbul Technical University (Cont’d)
Research Areas: climate modeling, numerical weather prediction, severe weather events.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 55
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2143
Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Yiğitalp KARA
Research Assistant, Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: M.Sc., Istanbul Technical University (Cont’d)
Research Areas: Atmospheric sciences, numerical weather prediction, air pollution, data analysis, machine learning, wind energy, renewable energy applications
Selected Studies: “Kara, Y., Akalin, I.A., Deniz, N.G. et al. Utilizing ANN for improving the WRF wind forecasts in Türkiye. Earth Sci Inform (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-023-01003-w”
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 55
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2143
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Department of Aircraft Maintenance
Oğuzhan ŞAHİN
Head of Department, Aircraft Maintenance Department
Assist. Prof., Department of Aircraft Maintenance
Education: Ph. D. 2020. Erciyes University
Research Areas: powder metallurgy, composite materials, sintering, microstructure and characterization, tribology
Selected Studies: ”The effect of ball milling on crystallite size (2020)”,” Investigation of Microstructure of Aluminum Based Composite Material Obtained by Mechanical Alloying (2020)”, ”Investigation of Microstructural Evolution in Ball-Milling of SiC Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites (2019)”, ”The Effect of Magnesium Additives on Aluminum-Based Composites Structure (2018)”.
Office: Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aircraft Maintenance Department
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | –
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Ertuğrul SUNAN
Aircraft Maintenance Department
Assist. Prof., Department of Aircraft Maintenance
Education: Ph. D. 2014. Ondokuz Mayıs University
Research Areas: finite differences in time method, effects of electromagnetic waves on living beings, artificial intelligence
Selected Studies: “The Effects Of Electromagnetic Fields To Whole Protein Myelin Basic Protein Neuron Specific Enolase Profiles And Nitric Oxide Levels In Rat Brains” (2012), “The effect of radiofrequency radiation generated by a Global System for Mobile Communications source on cochlear development in a rat model” (2014).
Office: Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aircraft Maintenance Department
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2128
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Pelin ALTINIŞIK
Aircraft Maintenance Department
Assist. Prof., Department of Aircraft Maintenance
Education: Ph. D. 2010. Ondokuz Mayıs University
Research Areas: circuits and systems, digital electronics, communication technique, fuzzy logic, image processing
Selected Studies: ‘’Finding String Unit Hit Response by Fuzzy Least Squares Method ’’ (2010), ‘’Two New Approaches to the Recursive Median Filter’’ (2017), ‘’An Approach Based on the Multistage Median Filter Method’’ (2018), ‘’Increasing Image Contrast by Combining Classical and Blurred Image Enhancement Methods’’ (2019), ‘’Efficiency of Classical and Blurred Image Contrast Enhancement Methods on Edge Detection Process’’ (2019).
Office: Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aircraft Maintenance Department
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2129
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Gaye Yeşim TAFLAN
Aircraft Maintenance Department
Assist. Prof., Department of Aircraft Maintenance
Education: Ph. D. 2013. Ondokuz Mayıs University
Research Areas: signal processing, artificial neural networks, artificial intelligence
Selected Studies: “In band interference reduction in FMCW channel data using Prony modelling” (2009), “Min norm method for estimating delay and doppler profiles from FMCW channel data with in band interference” (2010), “Estimation of delay profiles from FMCW channel data with in-band interference using eigenvector method” (2016).
Office: Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aircraft Maintenance Department
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2120
Office Hours: Wednesday 13.00-14.00
Cihad KÖSE
Aircraft Maintenance Department
Lecturer, Department of Aircraft Maintenance
Education: Ph. D. Ondokuz Mayıs University (continues)
Research Areas: aeronautical engineering, experimental aerodynamics, micro UAV
Selected Studies: “EFFECT OF PLANFORM SHAPE ON THE FLOW AROUND AN IMPULSIVELY PITCHING FLAT PLATE” (2019)
Office: Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aircraft Maintenance Department
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2118
Kadir DÖNMEZ
Aircraft Maintenance Department
Assist. Prof., Department of Aircraft Maintenance
Education: Ph. D, 2022. Eskişehir Technical University
Research Areas: air traffic management, air traffic system optimization, mathematical modeling, linear programming, mixed integer programming, multi-purpose programming, stochastic programming, human factors in aviation, development of air traffic control education.
Selected Studies: ”The effect of management practices on aircraft incidents”, ”Handling the pseudo-pilot assignment problem in air traffic control training by using NASA TLX”, “Aircraft Sequencing and Scheduling in Parallel-Point Merge Systems for Multiple Parallel Runways”, “Air traffic management in parallel-point merge systems under wind uncertainties”, “Evaluation of the performance of the multi-objective scalarization methods for the aircraft sequencing and scheduling problem using multi-criteria decision-making”.
Office: Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aircraft Maintenance Department
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