Cuneyt Sakonder

Muhammet Cuneyt Sakonder earned his Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University in the fall of 2023. Prior to his doctoral studies, Cuneyt worked as a project engineer at Skipsteknisk A/S for three years. He earned both his master’s degree in Offshore Engineering and his bachelor’s degree in Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. His doctoral research focused on the occurrence of reverse fracture in high-strength pipeline steels under impact loads. Cuneyt was awarded a Fulbright Ph.D. Scholarship by the Turkish Fulbright Commission and the American Bureau of Shipping Scholarship. He also received the Best Student Poster Award at the SNAME Offshore Symposium in 2023. He is now working as a senior engineer at Genesis in Houston, USA.