Dr. Oguz Simsek is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Harran University, Turkey. He specializes in hydraulic engineering, fluid mechanics, and hydro-climatology, with a particular focus on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), open channel flows, drought monitoring, and hydrological trend analysis. His research integrates numerical modeling and experimental hydraulics with statistical and machine learning techniques to address complex water resources and environmental engineering problems. Dr. Simşek has published numerous scientific papers in leading journals indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and Scopus, receiving over 1,270 citations on Google Scholar (with an h-index of 20). His work addresses key challenges in turbulent flow modeling, hydraulic structure design and energy dissipation, meteorological and hydrological drought characterization, and long-term hydro-climatic variability. He has extensive experience in numerical flow simulation, experimental flume studies, statistical trend testing, and advanced data-driven modeling. He serves as a reviewer for various prestigious international journals and actively contributes to editorial activities, including his role in the Harran University Journal of Engineering. Dr. Simsek’s research is highly interdisciplinary, bridging civil and hydraulic engineering, fluid mechanics, climate science, and environmental data analytics