Professor Sumer has been acting as an Expert in a 4-year (2022-2026) research project funded by NSFC (Natural Science Funding of China) with the title “Full Scale Investigation on Pipeline Scour and Span Shoulder Migration in Seashell and Sand Mixture Seabed”.

Project’s Principal Investigator is Professor Titi Sui of Hohai University, College of Harbour, Coastal and Offshore Engineering.

Professor David R. Fuhrman of Technical University of Denmark is also involved as an Expert in the project.

Professors Sumer’s and Fuhrman’s participations in the project have also been supported by a 2-year (2022-2024) Research Collaboration Agreement, awarded under the scheme “Foreign Talent Introduction Project from The Foreign Experts Bureau of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

Professor Sumer is a member of Board of Trustees of the Istanbul Technical University Development Foundation (2019-date).