Professor Kadir Sarıöz is a full-time faculty member at Istanbul Technical University in the Department of Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering . His career spans over three decades of research and teaching in naval architecture and ocean engineering, focusing on seakeeping, ship maneuvering, hull-form optimization, and hydrodynamic simulation. Research Interests Professor Sarıöz’s work revolves around the hydrodynamic performance of marine vehicles. His investigations include: Seakeeping behavior of high-speed and conventional displacement hulls Experimental and computational ship maneuvering in calm water and waves Optimization algorithms for hull-form and propeller design under mission-specific constraints Dynamic positioning capability analysis under realistic environmental loads Simulation-based routing of large tankers through restricted waterways such as the Istanbul Strait Recent Projects 2021 – 2023: “Refakat Römorkörü Performansının Çok Serbestlik Dereceli Deneysel ve Hesaplamalı Analizi” (Revolving Fund, Principal Investigator) 2020: “Shell Antalya Terminali B şamandıra sistemindeki boru hattının tadilatı incelemesi” (Revolving Fund, Principal Investigator) Publication Trends Between 1990 and 2025, Professor Sarıöz has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Early works concentrated on practical seakeeping criteria and automated hull fairing, while recent contributions emphasize system-based maneuvering prediction, multi-objective optimization of naval combatant hulls, and environmentally driven dynamic positioning analyses. A clear progression from empirical and semi-empirical methods to high-fidelity CFD and experimental validation is evident. Laboratory & Facilities His research is supported by the university’s towing tank and planar motion mechanism facilities, equipped with modern motion controllers and servo-motor systems enabling precise captive maneuvering tests.









