Mehmet Sinan Yildirim works as an Assistant Professor at Manisa Celal Bayar University. After completing his undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Middle East Technical University in 2011, he received a master's degree from the water resources department at the same university in 2013. In 2019, he completed his Ph.D. in transportation science at the Department of Civil Engineering at Manisa Celal Bayar University. Dr. Sinan Yildirim conducts research on railway engineering, transportation planning, port-dryport interaction, optimization of port operations, and port cooperation. He is a member of the Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers and serves as a referee for several academic journals. In 2022, Dr. Sinan Yildirim was awarded a post-doctoral scholarship by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, and he will be conducting research at the University of Tokyo in 2023.