Cevdet Enes Cukaci

Cevdet Enes Cukaci is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PhD student at the Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC) at Politecnico di Milano. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from Boğaziçi University. The focus of his master’s research was vision-based monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge for cable tension estimation with modal identification, finite element modeling and model updating. The research background is structural dynamics, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), system identification, vibration-based assessment, and finite element-based verification of civil structure. His current research (TWINS: Probabilistic Digital Twins for Continuous Bridge Performance) is part of the BRIDGITISE project funded by the European Union. It aims to develop a probabilistic digital twin for continuous bridge performance assessment and improved maintenance planning by combining nonlinear finite element deterioration models with observations from continuously monitored bridges. The project seeks to simulate realistic performance scenarios, improve the detection and interpretation of structural degradation over time, and support practical reliability-based maintenance decisions for safer and more resilient bridge infrastructure.