Research interests:

I am a physical oceanographer working on improvement of ocean general circulation models. I am interested in small scale mixing in the ocean and its representation in large scale climate models. My main focus areas include gravity currents, exchange flows, mesoscale eddies and deep convection. I use climate models for developing parameterization, hypothesis testing, and high resolution numerical simulations for idealized process studies.

Biography:
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2017, Assistant Professor, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, ITU, Turkey.
2012-2017, Senior scientist, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway.
2009-2012, Postdoc, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
2005-2009, PhD., Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
2001-2003 Masters, Mechanical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
1996-2001 Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Most important 5 publications:

• Ilıcak, M., Adcroft, A., Griffies, S. M., Hallberg, R., "Spurious dianeutral mixing and the role of momentum closure", Ocean Modelling , 45-46, 37-58, 2012.
• Ilıcak, M., "Quantifying spatial distribution of spurious mixing in ocean models",Ocean Modelling , 108, 30-38, 2016. 
• Ilıcak, M. and co-authors, "An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part III: Hydrography and fluxes", Ocean Modelling , 100, 141-161, 2016. 
• Ilıcak, M., "Energetics and mixing efficiency of lock-exchange flow", Ocean Modelling , 83, 1-10, 2014.
• Ilıcak, M., Özgökmen, T. M., Peters, H., Baumert, Z. H., Iskandarani, M., "Performance of Two-Equation Turbulence Closures in Three-Dimensional Simulations of the Red Sea Overflow", Ocean Modelling, 24, 122-139. 2008.