Ocean-going Marine Chief Engineer, Volkan VARIŞLI was born in Ankara on 11.3.1977 and graduated from ITU Maritime Faculty, Marine Engineering department with honors in 1999 and started his career as a watch-keeping engineer at STOLT Tankers, where he became the youngest chief engineer of the fleet in 2001. In the following years, he worked in a tanker management company and shipbuilding sector, as a site-manager in the construction of 17 chemical tankers, as a technical inspector, technical manager and as an assistant general manager. During this period he took his specialized trainings for marine four stroke diesel engines in Augsburg/Germany, MAN Factories and followed the on-site training of two stroke internal combustion engines in MAN B&W Frederikshavn/Denmark. In the next step of hir career, he worked as CEO of Caria Marine, that provides services in the field of marine diesel machinery automation and retrofitting together as an independent ship surveyor. He has been residing in TRNC since 2016 and continues to work as a full-time lecturer and head of Marine Engineering of Maritime Faculty of University of Kyrenia. During this period he has completed his master's and doctoral studies. Volkan VARIŞLI, who designed and built the TRNC's first autonomous research boat, which is the subject of his doctoral thesis and his project was awarded first place by the Turkish Chamber of Shipping in 2022. He continues his work in the field of boat hull design, alternative energy sources, propeller and propulsion systems with machine learning. He is also one of the chapter authors of the book Marine Engineering with Technical and Scientific Approaches, published in 2023. He is still actively working as a marine chief engineer at Coship and Scorpio Tanker companies during summer periods within the scope of in-service training. He is married and a father of one. He speaks english and spanish.