Dr. UĞURLU received MS and PhD degrees from Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He is an associate professor of the Faculty of Marine Science at Ordu University. He has completed the supervision of 14 MS and 2 PhD degrees in the areas of marine transportation engineering. He currently has two PhD students and five MS students under his supervision in the research areas of maritime safety, accident analyses, human factor, simulation modeling, and seafarers. His research findings have been published in more than 30 refereed papers in risk, safety, maritime transportation, and marine engineering, including more than 20 (SCI/SSCI-cited) journal and 30 conference papers (11 h-index, more than 450 citations in Google Scholar).