BACKGROUND

Şükrü Merey is currently  an Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Batman University, Batman-Turkey. He is an associate editor at Environmental Geotechnics. He got BSc., MSc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey in 2009, 2013, and 2017, respectively. In 2010 (3 months), he worked as a petroleum and natural gas engineer at the General Directorate of Petroleum Affairs of Turkey in Ankara. Then, he worked as a well-completion engineer at Turkish Petroleum Corporation (Adiyaman, Turkey) for more than 1 year between 2010 and 2011. Between 2011 and 2017, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey. Between 2018 and 2020, he worked as an Asst.Prof.Dr. at the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Batman University, Batman, Turkey. Dr. Merey also worked as a visiting scientist at USGS Central Energy Resources Science Center, Lakewood-Colorado (2022-2023) and Associated Researcher at Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, USA (2022-2024). His current research topics include gas (methane) hydrates, well completion, well stimulation, offshore drilling & production, reservoir simulation, machine learning in petroleum and natural gas engineering applications, adsorption, CO2 sequestration, underground gas storage, geothermal, reservoir geomechanics, shale gas reservoirs, hydrogen, and coalbed methane.