Dr. Abdullah Gokhan Yilmaz is a senior lecturer in the Department of Engineering at La Trobe University. Prior to joining La Trobe University, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Sharjah and the American University of Sharjah, a research fellow at Victoria University, and a lecturer at Heriot-Watt University. Dr. Yilmaz has over forty publications in prestigious journals and several conference papers. His research interests include climate change, hydrological modeling, flood and drought analysis, statistical hydrology, and water quality.