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Rümeysa Yilmaz

Rümeysa Yilmaz

Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation

PhD Student

Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-2922

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• Wave modelling
• Data Assimilation
• Wave forecasting

Education

• 2014 - 2020: Bachelor of Science
o Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
• 2020 - 2024: Master of Science
o Ocean and Climate Physics, Hamburg University, GERMANY
o Master Thesis: Improvement of Short-Term Wave Forecasts in the North Sea Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter with Applications to Decision Making Processes in Ship Operations

Scientific Employement

• 2020 - 2023: Student Assistant
o Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
o Sediment Morphology Group, KSS
o Project: Anthropogenic impacts on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea (APOC)

• 2024 - Ongoing: Ph.D. Student
o Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
o Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation Group, KSD
o Project: Data Assimilation of Wave Spectra Observations and its Impact on Sea State Predictions (DAWN)