Dr Serkan Turkmen, a lecturer in Marine Engineering, has been employed by Newcastle University since November 2012 in the School of Engineering, Marine Technology. He has been working on various research projects and is an expert user of Newcastle University’s research facilities, including the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel, towing tank, flowcell, and performance monitoring systems of the research vessel the Princess Royal RV. He has completed EU and UK funded projects, e.g. the FP7 EU Project SONIC, the Seafront Project and the Innovate UK-funded project hydrofoil catamaran the Flying Princess Royal. He also initiated interdisciplinary collaborations with marine biology at Newcastle University regarding a project involving fouling control as well as chemical engineering involving testing of cavitation erosion. He is a user of high-performance computing with the MPI parallel programming tools to simulate the hydrodynamic performance of ships, propeller, tidal turbines, and pipe flow. His research focuses on underwater acoustics, vibration, computational fluid dynamics, marine engineering, and naval architecture.