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Serdar Selamet is holding Associate Professor position at Bogazici University since November 2012. He has received his Undergraduate degree from Duke University , Masters and Doctorate degrees from Princeton University in the United States. His main research interests include fire engineering from structural fire design, heat transfer and fire growth to egress. He is also interested in traditional and cold formed steel design in seismically active regions. He holds technical committee memberships in fire engineering in Turkey, Europe and the U.S. and actively participates in international conferences and symposiums.

Aykut will develop highly innovative pathway for the development of graphene-steel structural members for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. The objective is to combine 3D printing technology, a pillar in Industry 4.0; graphene, a revolutionary 2D material, and novel non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques to detect structural impurities and enable continuous strain mapping inside a structural steel member in real time. Continuous strain reading inside the steel structural members without the need of wiring will revolutionize the SHM industry and pave the way for advanced smart materials in future structural engineering applications.

Mustapha received his BSc in Civil Engineering from Gaziantep University in 2017. He is currently pursuing his MSc degree at Boğaziçi University working on developing high-rise building evacuation models in EXODUS and studying the egress behaviors of people during fire.

Uğur has graduated from Civil Engineering Department of Istanbul Kültür University in 2009. He received his MSc degree from Boğaziçi University in 2012 with a thesis focusing on structural fire performance of floor beams. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Boğaziçi University with a research proposal titled "Fire Risk Assessment of High Rise Residential Buildings in Turkey", which was part of a Newton Collaborative Research Programme completed in 2017. The program deals with several fire design performance in high-rise structures including smoke spread, combustion toxicity, fire spread and occupant egress. These studies will be conducted on various building types in Istanbul building inventory obtained from Istanbul Municipality.

Uğur has graduated from Civil Engineering Department of Istanbul Kültür University in 2009. He received his MSc degree from Boğaziçi University in 2012 with a thesis focusing on structural fire performance of floor beams. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Boğaziçi University with a research proposal titled "Fire Risk Assessment of High Rise Residential Buildings in Turkey", which was part of a Newton Collaborative Research Programme completed in 2017. The program deals with several fire design performance in high-rise structures including smoke spread, combustion toxicity, fire spread and occupant egress. These studies will be conducted on various building types in Istanbul building inventory obtained from Istanbul Municipality.

Muhammet Çalayır graduated from Kocaeli University with high honors. He studied ‘’Fundamentals of fire design of steel structures according to Eurocodes’’ in his undergraduate thesis. His research title in MSc. is ‘’Post seismic fire performance analysis of structural and non-structural elements of tall buildings’’. In practice, load bearing structural elements such as beams, columns, slabs and shear walls are designed for earthquake resistance. Besides satisfying structural design requirements, non-structural elements such as compartment walls, elevators, fire doors and stairs should also be designed to withstand fire following earthquakes for a period of time allowing occupants to evacuate the building safely. Considering the possibility of incapability of fire protection systems after a seismic excitation, Muhammet will provide the information regarding the damage level of these components in linear and nonlinear time history analyses by utilizing MATLAB, ETABS and PERFORM 3D.

İsmail will focus on developing the graphical interface and code development of the finite element software FEHEAT which solves transient heat transfer problems involving radiation and temperature dependent material properties.

Sofi Farazande was a Senior student who worked on developing occupant egress lecture notes for CE549 Structural Fire Safety.

Ahmet Fazıl has graduated from Yildiz Technical University in 2007. He worked for several industrial contstruction projects. He has started to Master's program in the Civil Engineering Department in 2014. He is currently working for Turkish Standards Institution-TSE Construction Laboratory in Tuzla/İstanbul. He is in charge of fire resistance tests and fire classification of construction products and building elements in TSE. His research topic is conducting fire experiments at TSE for validation of heat transfer by radiation under ISO fire curve. Ahmet has successfully defended his MSc.

Kadir has graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Civil Engineering Department in 2012. His research title was "The Types of Connection Damages of Prefabricated Systems During Eartquakes and Pushover Analysis". He has started his Master’s program at Bogazici University in 2012. He received his MSc degree in May 2015 with thesis titled "The Effect of Semi-Rigid Connections to Seismic Behaviour of High Rise Buildings" (can be found here ). He got accepted to the PhD program at Bogazici University and will continue to develop fire performance analyses techniques of large scale infrastructures.

Fırat Yolaçan has graduated from Middle East Technical University of Civil Engineering Department (2014)ç He worked in the steel design industry for several years before applying for a MSc degree at Bogazici University. His current research is "Risk Assessment of Large-scale Structures in Istanbul Against Fire Hazard" and he was part of the reliability team established at BOUNFIRE Research Group. After a year pursuing a PhD degree at our Department, he got acceptance from University of Luxemburg Research Unit in Engineering and Sciences.

Kerem has graduated from Yeditepe University in 2014. His research presented the results of a series of experimental tests of the tensile properties of parallel wire strand with steel sockets at elevated temperature and the residual properties after cooling when held at constant stress (pre-loaded) level and subjected to hydrocarbon fires. Kerem has successfully defended his MSc.

Caner Bölükbaş attained his undergraduate degree from Bogazici University from the Department of Civil Engineering with Structures emphasis in 2013. He is currently a Masters degree student focusing on the fire experiment on a composite floor structure, which is part of Marie Curie Internatinal Incoming Fellowship Program. The fire experiment was conducted in Fall 2015.

Ecem has graduated from Istanbul Technical University of Civil Engineering Department in 2014; currently, she is a Masters degree student at Boğaziçi University. Her graduation project title was “Applications of RFID Technology in Construction Sector”. Her current research topic was “Risk Assessment of Large-scale Structures in İstanbul Against Fire Hazard” and she was part of the reliability team established at BOUNFIRE Research Group.

Mübin graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with high honors in 2015. Buildings are composed of structural and non-structural components. Generally, load bearing structural elements such as beams, columns, slabs and shear walls are designed for earthquake. Earthquake effects on fire related non-structural components such as compartment walls, elevators, fire doors and stairs are not designed for a good performance against earthquake. Mübin will estimate the damage of these components after moderate earthquake using Matlab, Sap2000 and Perform 3D.

Baturay Özgürün has received BSc. degree as a top scoring student in electronics engineering from Uludağ University, in 2012. He holds a MSc. degree from Boğaziçi University, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department and currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Sabancı University, Molecular Biology Department. His main research interests are FPGA, embedded systems, signal processing and photonics. He was the head developer for FEHEAT Finite Element Program and its user graphical interface (GUI).

Sena was 4. year Undergraduate student majoring in Civil Engineering and minoring Industrial Engineering. She assisted with several consulting jobs related to structural fire safety.

Tuğba has graduated from Istanbul University of Civil Engineering Department in 2011. Her senior design project was “The Modeling of Steel Roof in an Indoor Sports Hall”. In 2011, she started to Master’s program at Boğaziçi University in the Civil Engineering Department and her current thesis subject is “Steel Connections on Composite Floor Systems under the Fire”.

Murat was a Senior undergraduate at Bogazici University, majoring in Physics and Civil Engineering. In 2013, he conducted undergraduate research at UCLA, CA. He is the Webmaster for this site. Murat helped to develop some modules in FEHEAT finite element code. He is currently a graduate student at MIT.

Özgün was a 3. Year undergraduate student at Boğazici University and contributed to the literature search on the World Trade Center Collapse.

Aybike has graduated from Bogazici University in 2014. She was responsible for the creation of structural engineering word definition database with Turkish translation. This project is commissioned by TUBA - Turkish Academy of Sciences.