Omer San received his bachelor's in aeronautical engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2005, his master's in aerospace engineering from Old Dominion University in 2007, and his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech in 2012. He worked as a postdoc at Virginia Tech from 2012 to 2014, and then from 2014 to 2015 at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has been an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA, since 2015. He is a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy 2018 Early Career Research Program Award in Applied Mathematics. His field of study is centered upon the development, analysis and application of advanced computational methods in science and engineering with a particular emphasis on fluid dynamics across a variety of spatial and temporal scales.