Dr. Selim Bozkurt is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Ulster University. Before joining Ulster, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science at University College London and at the Craniofacial Unit of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Prior to these roles, he was a researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. Dr. Bozkurt earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he also worked as a research assistant. Earlier in his career, he was a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey, where he completed his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Eskisehir Osmangazi University in Eskisehir, Turkey.

Dr. Bozkurt has been serving as an associate editor for the journals “Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine” since April 2020 and “Digital Twins and Applications” since July 2024. From 2018 to 2021, he was a member of the technical program committee for the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology. He has presented his research as an invited speaker at various conferences and events and has established international academic collaborations with different universities including Texas Tech University in the USA, the National Research Council in Italy, and Yeditepe University and Dogus University in Turkey.

Dr. Bozkurt’s research interests include the design, analysis, and testing of implantable medical devices, cardiovascular biomechanics, modelling and simulation of physiological systems to evaluate clinical scenarios, and computational modelling of skull correction in craniosynostosis.