Biographical Information

Serpil Kocabiyik (PhD Western, 1987) completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics at Middle East Technical University in 1979 and 1981, respectively. She obtained her doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario in 1987 where she also stayed on for a few more years as a postdoctoral fellow before moving on to Manitoba as an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics in 1995. She joined the faculty of Memorial University in 1999 where she is currently a Professor of Mathematics. Her research is an interdisciplinary blend of classical applied mathematics, theoretical fluid mechanics and computational science. Her recent research focuses on several classes of unsteady separated flows caused by fluid, bluff body and free-surface interaction with application to vortex-induced vibrations. She was awarded the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award at Memorial in 2000. She is a lifetime member of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and was honored with their Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award in 2006. She was a guest editor for International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics and ISCFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal.