Dr. Ramazan Karakuzu, born in 1964, received his BSc degree in 1986 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, his MSc degree in 1988, and his PhD degree in 1992 at the Mechanics branch of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. He is currently a Professor of Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. His areas of research are the impact and post-impact behaviors of laminated composite plates and composite pressure vessels, failure analysis of pinned joint composite structures, and elasto-plastic stress analysis of composite plates. He is a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and the Turkish Society of Mechanical Engineers (TSME) and a founding member of the Association of Biomechanics, Biomaterial, Tissue Engineering Research and Development.

Prof. Dr. Ender Ciğeroğlu received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He received his second M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

Since 2007, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at METU. Between 2008 and 2023, he served as the Deputy Director of the METU BİLTİR Center. He led the establishment activities of DİMER – Gear, Power Transmission Systems and Vibration Application and Research Center, within the scope of a project approved by the Ministry of Development in 2016 and supported by the Presidency of Strategy and Budget. Following the establishment of DİMER in 2024, he began serving as the Director of the Center. Since 2025, he has also been serving as Vice President of METU.

Prof. Dr. Ciğeroğlu’s research interests include vibration, nonlinear vibrations, dynamic modeling of friction and contact, vibrations of gas turbine engines, gear dynamics, structural dynamics, vibrations of micro/nano structures and carbon nanotubes, and fluid-structure interaction. He has carried out numerous collaborative projects with national and international industrial organizations and has served as principal investigator and researcher in projects supported by the European Union, TÜBİTAK, and similar institutions. The analysis software he developed for the vibration analysis of gas turbine engines has been used for many years by international companies designing jet engines.

Prof. Dr. Yusuf ARMAN

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi

Makina Mühendisliği Bölümü

Erdogan Madenci, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. With a rich academic background, including a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from UCLA and multiple degrees from Lehigh University, Dr. Madenci has held various esteemed positions such as Visiting Faculty at MIT and Visiting Scientist at NASA. He is a Fellow of ASME, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling. His research focuses on engineering mechanics, multiphysics simulations, and nonlocal modeling, earning him numerous awards, including the IEEE Electronic Packaging Society's Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award.

Prof Selda Oterkus joined the department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at University of Strathclyde in August 2015. She is currently a professor (Chair) and the co-director of PeriDynamics Research Centre (PDRC).
She received her PhD degree from the University of Arizona in mechanical engineering with minor degree in civil engineering and engineering mechanics.
Her research mainly focuses on multi-physics modelling of materials and structures including damage prediction due to various loading and environmental conditions. This includes fluid-structure interaction modelling, ships & offshore structures, offshore renewable energy, floating wind and solar energy devices, desalination & water treatment, ice-structure interactions, fire damage in composites, corrosion damage, and poroelasticity.
Her research has been supported by various organisations including Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Department for Transport, British Council, Babcock, QinetiQ, Innovate UK, McDermott and TWI.
Prof Oterkus was a visiting professor at Stanford University (USA), University of Padova (Italy) and Otto von Guericke University (Germany). She is a Special Issue Editor for Computational Material Science (Elsevier) and Journal of Mechanics (Cambridge). She is an associate editor of Frontiers in Materials (Frontiers) and academic editor of Shock and Vibration (Hindawi). She is a member of the editorial boards of Scientific Reports (Nature), Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling (Springer), Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (MDPI), and Sustainable Marine Structures (NASS). She is also currently the chair of ASME UK Section.

Prof. Dr. Yusuf ARMAN

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi

Makina Mühendisliği Bölümü