Associate Professor Dr. Elif Oğuz was born in Bursa in 1984. She graduated from Bursa Gazi Anatolian High School in 2002. She completed her undergraduate studies in the Civil Engineering Department of Balıkesir University between 2002 and 2006. In 2010, she graduated from the Coastal Sciences and Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University with a master's thesis titled "Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Reeds on Wave Deflection." Between 2009 and 2014, she worked as a Research Assistant in the Civil Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University. In 2014, she went to Glasgow to pursue her doctorate and began working as a Research Assistant at the University of Strathclyde. In 2016, she received her doctorate from the University of Strathclyde with her thesis titled "Hydrodynamic Design Aspects of Tension Leg Platforms for Wind Turbines." She later became a lecturer at Dr. He continued his postdoctoral studies at the University of Strathclyde until 2018. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Hydraulics Department of the METU Civil Engineering Department between 2018 and 2021 and as an Associate Professor between 2021 and 2025. He taught the master's degree courses Numerical Modeling of Offshore Wind Turbines and the undergraduate course Hydrodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Hydromechanics of Offshore Wind Turbines. Since 2020, as Deputy Director of RÜZGEM – Wind Energy Technologies Research and Application Center, he has played a leading role in the development of wind energy technologies with domestic and innovative solutions and has been actively involved in the center's national and international collaborations. He has made internationally recognized contributions to the field of sustainable energy engineering through his multidisciplinary and pioneering research on offshore wind turbines, floating solar, and hydrokinetic energy systems. With his competence in numerical modeling, performance analysis and system optimization, he played an important role in the development of the research capacity of the METU Civil Engineering Department through both his scientific publications and the projects he participated in.
