I am an assistant professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of KU Leuven. I am located at the Bruges Campus, and I am affiliated in both Mecha(tro)nic Systems Dynamics Group and M-Group. My research interests encompass computational mechanics, numerical methods, design optimization, structural dynamics, soft-body mechanics, and composite materials. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (2018) from Koc University, where I worked as a Marie Curie early stage research fellow. I also hold an M.Sc. degree in Computational Mechanics (Technical University of Munich, 2013) and a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Middle East Technical University, 2011).