Dr. Kisi has been working as a guest professor at University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from Institute of Science and Technology (Hydraulics Division) at the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (2003). His research fields are developing novel methods towards the innovative solution of hydrologic forecasting and modeling; forecasting, estimating, spatial and temporal analysis of hydro-climatic variables such as precipitation, streamflow, suspended sediment, evaporation, evapotranspiration, groundwater, lake level and water quality parameters using wavelet analysis, remote sensing, statistical and new graphical trend methods; hydro-informatics. He is an active participant in numerous research projects and supervisor of several MSc and PhD works. Author of several peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member of several reputed journals (e.g. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Hydrology Research, Hydrological Sciences Journal and KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering). He is serving as a reviewer for more than 100 journals indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI/SCIE) in the fields of hydrology, irrigation, water resources and hydro-informatics. He has authored more than 500 research articles, 15 chapters and 30 discussions (Web of Science h-index = 84, Google Scholar h-index = 105; Scopus h-index 91). Dr. Kisi is the recipient of the 2006 International Tison Award (given by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS); URL: http://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/Tison-Award/Tison-Award-winners/OKisi.do). He received the best reviewer award from IAHS in 2020. He was selected as the highly cited researcher by the Clarivate in 2021 (https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/?utm_campaign=EM1_Highly_Cited_Researchers_SAR_Global_2021_Recipients_EN&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua). He received the best discussion award from The Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2023. In 2020-2023, Dr. Kisi has been ranked in the top 2% of world's scientists by Stanford University (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6). He is a principle member of Turkish Academy of Science (selected in 2012, https://www.tuba.gov.tr/en/members/all-members/full-members).
