Burhan CETINKAYA is a Structural Design Engineer at Airbus Aerostructure GmbH in Germany and a PhD candidate in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering at İstanbul Technical University. He began his career as a Test Engineer at BIAS-Eksen Engineering, then worked as a Design Engineer on the ALTAY main battle tank project at Otokar. He subsequently led structural design for the ASOJ project in collaboration between TAI and Bombardier at Wichita Kansas, USA, and before he contributed to the Hürkuş and Hürjet aircraft programs at Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara, Türkiye. In his previous company (TAI), he served as Chief Design Engineer on aircraft modification projects and he was the team leader of a 14-employee multinational engineering team. Burhan CETINKAYA graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department and after that he completed his M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering at Istanbul Technical University at the age of 26; he is currently a PhD candidate in the same department. His expertise encompasses aircraft structural design, parametric modeling, structural optimization of fuselage and landing-gear components, and low-velocity impact analysis of fiber–metal laminates, underpinning his research on multiscale performance-based design for next-generation aerospace structures.  He has investigated the low-velocity impact behavior of fiber–metal laminates on aircraft for next-generation aviation structures under extreme ambient temperatures.