Baran Bozyigit

Baran Bozyigit is a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. His research interests include structural dynamics, soil-structure interaction, earthquake engineering, masonry buildings, bridges, and offshore wind turbines. Bozyigit studied civil engineering at Ege University and earned an MSc in Structural Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey) in 2015. He completed his PhD thesis in 2020, focusing on dynamic analysis of continuous parameter frames. He was a visiting PhD student at Oxford in 2019, working on masonry arch bridges under Prof Sinan Acikgoz. He joined Oxford again in 2023 for further research on seismic behaviour of historical masonry buildings and dynamic soil-structure interaction.

Baran Bozyigit is a researcher at Dokuz Eylul University, specializing in bridge engineering, earthquake engineering, soil-structure interaction, and structural dynamics. Their work focuses on seismic analysis of structures, including onshore and offshore wind turbines, masonry arch bridges, and pile-supported frames. Bozyigit employs analytical methods such as dynamic stiffness approaches, transfer matrix formulations, and differential transformation methods to study vibration characteristics and damage assessment in structures. Research also addresses the impact of material properties, foundation flexibility, and crack detection in beam-like systems. Their contributions emphasize the importance of soil-structure interaction and seismic performance evaluation in earthquake-prone regions.