• Head of Department of Civil Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), 2025

• Professor of Structural Engineering at ITU

• Author/co-author of 110+ journal papers (SCI or SCIE) and 260+ international conference papers 

• Supervised/co-supervised 22 completed Phd theses and 71 MSc theses

• Ranked among top 2% researchers worldwide in civil engineering based on citation score in

​     2020, 2023, 2024 (Stanford University and Elsevier)  

• Ranked as the top researcher at ITU Civil Engineering Department based on the academic

    activities conducted between (2016-2021), (2017-2022), [2018-2023], [2019-2024] with the score of 100% (by ITU Administration)

• Ranked as the top researcher at ITU Civil Engineering Department based on the high-quality

    journal papers published in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 (by ITU Administration) 

• Member of Board of Directors for Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool, DASK (2017-)

• President/Member of Board of Directors for Turkish Earthquake Foundation TDV (2021/2018-2021)

• AFAD Disaster and Emergency Advisory Board Member (2020-)

• Turkish Seismic Design Code Revision Committee Member (2004-2007, 2012-2018, 2019-)

• Vice-director of Structural and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory (1994-2007)

• Co-director of Structural and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory (2007-2015)

• Member of IIFC Executive Committee Member (2018-)

• Head of Turkish National Delegation to fib

• Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (SCI) (2019-)

• International Editorial Board Member for ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction (SCI) (2018-)

• Associate Editor of Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (SCI)

• Editorial Board Member of Bulletin of the NZ Society for Earthquake Engineering (2013-2023)

• Editorial Board Member of Current Chinese Science - Structural Engineering

• Editor of Turkish Journal of Civil Engineering – TMMOB (SCI)

• Associate Editor of Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (2013-2018)

• Regional Editor of International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering

• Guest Editor of Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (SCI)

• Guest Editor of Journal of Earthquake Engineering (SCI)

• Guest Editor of Polymers Journal (SCI)

• Recipient of ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction Outstanding Reviewer Award 2019

• Advisory Board Member of Ozyegin University and Yeditepe University Civil Engineering Departments