About
Dr Burhan Yildiz joined the Department in February 2025 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, working on the UKRI-funded Smart Renewable Energy Generation, Recharging and Maintenance Technology (SMARTGEN) project. His main responsibilities in this project include constructing and executing numerical hydrodynamic models for flow around floating wave energy converter to establish a digital twin of the prototype, validating the model, and collecting data from the model output to gain insights for future development. In this project, he collaborates with Professor Musa Bashir and Dr Davide Dapelo, along with external partners from Newcastle University and from industry.
Dr Burhan Yildiz has a background in Civil Engineering, with his MSc and PhD studies focused on Hydraulics. He earned his degrees from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Before joining the University of Liverpool, he worked as an academic at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Mugla Sitki Kocman University (Turkey), Cyprus International University, and Middle East Technical University. He worked as a researcher at Deltares (Netherlands) for one year, and as a design engineer in the industry in Ankara, Turkey.