Kaan Yünkül received his B.Sc. (2015), M.Sc. (2019), and Ph.D. (2024) degrees in Civil Engineering from Gazi University, Türkiye. He joined Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University as an assistant professor in 2024. His research interests focus on geotechnical engineering, soil mechanics, geosynthetic-reinforced soil systems, MSE walls, shallow and deep foundations, soil improvement and stabilization techniques, geocell applications, transportation geotechnics, and numerical modeling using finite element methods.