Administration

Pinar Mengüç, after graduating from Ankara Science High School, received his BS and MS degrees from ODTU/METU in Ankara, Turkey, and his PhD from Purdue University, USA in 1985. He joined to the University of Kentucky and promoted to the ranks of associate professor and professor in 1988 and 1993, respectively, and eventually selected as the Engineering Alumni Association Chair Professor in 2008. He was a visiting professor at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy during 1991, and at Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA during should be 1998-1999 academic year.

He joined Özyeğin University, Istanbul in 2009 as the founding Head of Mechanical Engineering. The same year, he established CEEE/EÇEM. Mengüç’s research areas include radiative transfer, nanoscale transport phenomena, applied optics and sustainable energy applications. Over the years, he has guided more than 70 MS and PhD students, and postdocs researchers.

He is the author/coauthor of more than 150 archival papers, 220 conference publications, four books, and several book chapters. He holds six patents, including a triadic patent. Since 2008, he is one of the three Editorsin Chief of Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT ).

Mengüç received a R&D100 Award in 2005 based on a particle characterization technique they developed with the startup company STI in the USA. He also received 2014 Knowledge Transfer Award (2014) and 2015 Outstanding Researcher Award (2015), both from Ozyegin University, and the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the category of Art (2018). In 2020 he was chosen as an Outstanding Mechanical Engineer by the Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering. Mengüç is an elected member of Science Academy of Turkey and currently serving at its executive board.

In the first half of 2022, he has been a visiting professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in addition to his duties at CEEE

Dilek Saygı graduated with high honours and as the first one of the International Relations Department of Girne American University in 2007. Between 2007 and 2010, she worked as a project management assistant in International Office for Planning, Research and Consultancy Services (IPADHO) of Kadir Has University, Istanbul and specialized on funding programmes of international institutions as well as on management of social responsibility and consultancy projects in Turkey. She has been working as an Administrative Manager at CEEE since 2011 and is responsible for project management activities of the Center; budgetary operations and monitoring of funded projects; planning and arrangement of dissemination activities of national and international organizations. She has been also providing administrative assistance to Center’s Director, managing regular office procedures, issues of documentation, budgeting, and reporting of the Center. She has an intimate research interest on international governance and environmental adaptation policies through climate change; impacts and risks for vulnerable regions. She is now at dissertation stage of her MS in Political Science and International Relations at Yeditepe University focusing on “Analyzing the Impact of Climate Change Related Migration on Human Security”.

Cem Keskin completed undergraduate program of Middle East Technical University Department of Physics in 2008 and received his master degree in 2013 from Energy Science and Technology Program of Istanbul Technical University Energy Institute. He has completed his PhD study in Mechanical Engineering Department of Özyeğin University in 2020 and works as a project rese archer in Center for Energy, Environment and Economy. During his undergraduate education, he specialized in the field measurement and instrumentation and also participated student activities dealing with renewable energy. After graduation, had worked in private sector for five years as executive assistant and operations ma nager. During studies in master degree, he focused on industrial energy management and developed tools for implementing lean engineering and 6Sigma tools to in dustrial energy efficiency projects. He started to work in Özyeğin University in 2014 and he is the pilot leader of the Horizon2020TRIBE project for two years. He is cur rently studying on development of cyberphysicalsocial systems for interactive taskambient conditioning and leveraging humanbuilding interactions for building energy efficiency.

After graduating from the Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, Gülçin Mezireli got Freelance Professional Accountant and Financial Consultancy Certificates and worked at companies such as Soyak Holding, BRISA and Ernst & Young. In 2011, she started to work at CEEE as finance specialist. She has contributed to the execution and finalization of Center’s national and international projects and successfully conducted and accomplished SymNet, NEED4B, BRICKER, TRIBE, CAPACITY, NEXTGEN and industry collaboration projects of the Center. She is currently working on financial operations of Center through accounting, budgeting, and reporting in coordination with other departments of the Özyeğin University.

Dr. Altuğ M. Başol received his BSc and MSc degrees from Bogazici University in Istanbul from chemical and mechanical engineering respectively. He received his Ph.D degree from ETH Zurich in Switzerland in 2013 and continued to work as a post-doctoral researcher at the same university. Since 2014, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at Özyeğin University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. His research interests are numerical methods, heat transfer, thermal radiation, heat treatment furnaces, compressor and turbine aerothermodynamics. He successfully completed his TUBITAK – 3501 project and is currently involved in ongoing industry-university partnership projects with Sisecam and Arcelik. He also led and successfully completed other industry-university partnership projects with MAN Energy, Hitachi Energy Solutions, Ford Otosan.

M. PINAR MENGÜÇ

DİLEK SAYGI

GÜLÇİN MEZİRELİ

CEM KESKİN

ALTUĞ MELİK BAŞOL