Dr. Erkan Oterkus is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in the department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering of University of Strathclyde. He is also leading Peridynamics, Multiscale, Multiphysics Analysis of materials and structures (PMMA) research group. He received his PhD from University of Arizona, USA and was a researcher at NASA Langley Research Center, USA before joining University of Strathclyde. His research is mainly focused on computational mechanics of materials and structures by using some of the state-of-the-art techniques including peridynamics and inverse finite element method. Some of his recent research is focusing on multiscale modelling of stress corrosion cracking, underwater shock response of marine composite structures, failure analysis of electronic packages, collision and grounding of ships and real-time monitoring of ship structures. His research has been supported by various organizations including European Union, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), Samsung Electronics, Lloyd’s Register, KIAT and Tubitak. He is the co-author of numerous publications including the first of book on peridynamics, journal and conference papers.

Research Interest: Marine environment; Microbial ecology; molecular biology; biodiversity.

Research Interest: Numerical modelling of hydrodynamics, sediment transport and radionuclide dispersion in aquatic, enviroments: estuarine and coastal waters. Development of rapid-response dispersion models for assessment after emergencies. Dispersion models for reactive radiouclides including water/sediment interactions. Numerical modelling of tsunami propagation.

Research Interest: Marine Biogeochemistry: Biogeochemical processes and fates of dissolved and particulate organic matter and trace elements in oceans. Land-Sea Interactions: Generation, transport and transformation of terrestrial materials in land-sea systems. Trace Metals in Aquatic Environments: Speciation, availability, pollution and ecological significances.

Research Interest: Hydrodynamic analysis of marine vessels, offshore platforms and floating wind turbines by using boundary element method. Multibody hydrodynamics. Couple analysis of the floating structures with mooring systems.Waves and wave motions in free surface.

Research Interest: Membranes in Artificial Organs, Integrated Membrane Processes, Membrane Preparation Transport Phenomena, Membrane Distillation and Membrane Contactors, Catalytic Membrane and Catalytic Membrane Reactors.

Research Interest: Ocean; Wave Hydrodynamics; Fluid Mechanics ; Hydrodynamics.

Research Interest: Geochemistry process of persistent organic pollutants in marine environment, biodegradation of persistent organic pollutants in marine ecosystems.

Research Interest: Marine sciences, Image and Video processing, Wavelet, Finite element methods.

Research Interest: Microfluidic techniques; Flow injection techniques; Environmental monitoring; Environmental assessment; Environmental indices; Multivariate analysis; Chemometrics.

Research Interest: Microbiology; Microbial Ecology; Marine Pollution; Bioremediation; Oil degrading bacteria.

Research Interest: Deep water geophysics, Multi-component seismic, Marine physical simulation, Ghost noise suppress

Research Interest: Two solitary waves runup; Investigating the C-wave accuracy in sloped beaches using meshfree method; Prediction of ship motions in the regular waves with SPH method; Breaking criteria for two solitary waves using incompressible SPH.

Research Interest: Heavy metals, marine food web, stable isotopes, feeding ecology, fisheries, bioaccumulation, ecotoxicology.