Prof.Dr. Veysel Şadan Özgür Kırca

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V.S. Ozgur Kirca is a Professor of Hydraulics and Coastal Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering. He is also the co-founder of BM SUMER Consultancy and Research, which is affiliated to ITU ARI Teknokent. He has authored and co-authored over 80 scientific papers, and has been involved in many international and national research programs, including projects under EU-FP7 and EU-Horizon 2020 programmes. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Technical University of Denmark (2009-2011). His fields of expertise cover seabed-flow-structure interaction, turbulent processes, sediment transport and morphodynamics, physical and numerical modelling of coastal/hydraulic processes, design and assessment of coastal protection structures, statistical and spectral wave analysis. He received “2014’s Outstanding Reviewer Award” from ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. Ozgur Kirca has been actively involved in consulting for the industry for 20 years in different aspects of Coastal, Offshore and Hydraulic Engineering. He has done consultancy work in projects in many countries including Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Jordan, Libya, Namibia, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.