Professional Activities
• Organization
◦ Conference Co-Chair, Organization of “DTSS 2025 – International Conference & Exhibition on Digital Transformation & Smart Systems”, 15–16 May 2025, METU Culture and Convention Center, Ankara, Türkiye. Theme: “Beyond Boundaries: Digital, Smart, and Sustainable”.
◦ Conference Chair, Organization of “European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber” (ECCMR), June 26-28, 2024, İstanbul, Türkiye.
◦ Scientific Board Member of “European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber” (ECCMR), since 2019.
◦ Organization of “1st International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials” (IWPDF 2019), August 22–23, 2019, Ankara, Turkey, with T. Yalcinkaya, C. Tekoglu, M. Efe and E. Gürses.
◦ Member of Scientific Research Projects Commission at METU, since December 2018.
◦ Scientific Research Projects Coordinator at METU, since May 2017 – October 2024.
◦ Organization of symposium ” Phase-Field Models for Cracking in Complex Materials”,
6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (Solids, Structures and
Coupled Problems) (ECCM 6) June 11–15, 2018, with C. Kuhn and M.A. Keip.
◦ Organization of symposium ” New Aspects in Polymer Mechanics – Curing, Thermodynamics, Ageing and Durability”, 5th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, September 30 – October 2, 2013, with M. Johlitz.
◦ Organization of Simtech graduate seminar ”Advanced scale bridging techniques towards
computational material design” on June 29 and July 20, 2012 with C. Linder
and C. Miehe
◦ Member of selection committee for Erasmus Mundus Master in Computational Mechanics
Program, Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech
• Affiliations
◦ European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH)
◦ Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM)
◦ Chamber of Civil Engineers, Ankara, Turkey
• Reviewer for
◦ Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
◦ Mechanics of Materials
◦ Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
◦ International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics
◦ International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
◦ Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
◦ Tire Science and Technology
◦ Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International
◦ Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry