The Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Deniz Ayhan Moen to a part-time position as Technical Manager. Dr. Ayhan Moen is a well-known expert in cold-formed steel structures and has previously facilitated several events for the cold-formed steel research community. CFSRC Director Ben Schafer says, “As CFSRC has grown and the scope of our efforts increased, particularly with respect to conferences, colloquia, and symposiums it has become clear we need additional help. The opportunity to bring Dr. Ayhan Moen onboard to help in CFSRC’s growth is super exciting.”
Dr. Ayhan Moen received her Ph.D. in 2013 from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with a focus on collapse response of cold-formed steel members. She participated in research about steel-plate composite walls at Purdue University as a postdoctoral scholar. She has taught classes at ITU, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has served as a visiting scholar and postdoctoral scholar at JHU. “Her experimental research on the moment-rotation response of CFS ledger framing was fantastic and shed new light on some unique challenges with this framing system,” says CFSRC Director Schafer in discussing a portion of Dr. Ayhan Moen’s postdoctoral studies.
Also during her postdoctoral work Dr. Ayhan Moen was the primary organizer and facilitator for the Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures conference, hosted in Baltimore. Most recently, in a volunteer capacity, she assisted again in the organization of the 2020 CFSRC Colloquium – and led the online publication of the proceedings. Now in her role as Technical Manager, Dr. Ayhan Moen has already managed the recently successful 2nd annual CFSRC Summer Student Symposium, where 17 CFSRC student researchers from 7 different universities were able to share their work with the full CFSRC investigator team. Dr. Ayhan Moen is now leading the creation and organization of the 2022 CFSRC Colloquium, which will soon be formally announced.
CFSRC continues to provide project management and/or infrastructure support for a large number of research efforts; including: SDII, CFS-NHERI, Stud Bearing, CFS-NextGenSteels, NSF wind towers, and a number of AISI small projects including CFS fillet weld performance, Steel deck sidelap stiffness and strength testing, Edge distance in bolted lap shear connections, Evaluation of ASCE41, and more. Having Dr. Ayhan Moen will allow CFSRC to better communicate on these efforts. As the projects are progressing, an ever-growing library of reports and papers on CFS research is being managed by Dr. Ayhan Moen at the CFSRC DSPACE collection. (https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/40427).
“We are all really proud of the organization CFSRC has grown to become. We have always been lean and efficient in our administration, and Dr. Ayhan Moen’s efficient and high-level contributions ensure that will be true going forward,” says CFSRC Director Schafer.