Mertol Tüfekci is a lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Hertfordshire and an academic visitor at Imperial College. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, with a B.Sc. degree in 2016. He was a research assistant at the same institution. He was awarded a scholarship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for his Ph.D. study abroad. He completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering Department, in 2022. He is mainly interested in programming mechanical problems and finite element analysis.