Academic Staff

Sena Yağmur ŞEN graduated from Izmir Yaşar University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2018 with a Bachelor's degree. She completed her Master's degree with Thesis in Izmir Yaşar University Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in 2021. During her graduate education, she worked as an adjunct instructor at Izmir Yaşar University. Afterwards, she started her PhD education at Izmir University of Economics, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2021 and has been working as a research assistant in the same department since 2023. Her current research interests are in biomedical signal processing, machine learning and deep learning.

He has graduated from Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) Mechanical Engineering Department in 1982. He has gained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from DEU, respectively, on the fields of Construction-Manufacturing in 1985 and Thermodynamics-Energy in 1991. He has worked as a research assistant at DEU between 1983-1992, and as a researcher at the Catholic University of America between 1992-1994. Between 1994-1999 he has worked as a bussiness executive and partner for a private company. Prof. M. Barış ÖZERDEM has rejoined the faculty position at İzmir Institute of Technology between 1999-2012. Meanwhile, he has served as Mechanical Engineering Department Head between 2002-2006, Dean of Graduate School between 2006-2007, and Dean of Engineering Faculty between 2007-2010. Prof. M.Barış ÖZERDEM has also worked at Bahçeşehir University (BAU), Department of Energy Systems Engineering until 2016. He was head of the department at BAU between 2014-2016. Prof. M. Barış ÖZERDEM is the founding president of American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Turkish Chapter. His main research areas are; thermodynamics, heat transfer, HVAC applications, and renewable energy. In addition, Prof. M. Barış ÖZERDEM is a member of Editorial Board of SCI listed journal Energy and Buildings .

He graduated from Balıkesir University Mechanical Engineering Department in 2005. After graduation, he worked as a mechanical engineer in various companies and continued his graduate education at Izmir Institute of Technology (İYTE). He completed his master's degree at IZTECH Mechanical Engineering Department in 2012 and his doctorate at IZTECH Mechanical Engineering Department in 2021. During PhD program, he worked as a project assistant in various Tübitak projects. Between 2015 and 2017, he carried out R&D activities as a founding partner in NLFD Technology company, which was established with the Techno-enterprise Capital Support of the Ministry of Industry and Technology. He started to work as a faculty member in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Izmir University of Economics in 2021. He carries out academic studies on robotics and his fields of study include mobile robots, fault tolerant control, teleoperation, haptic device design, medical robotics, dynamic modeling and controller design.

Izzet Murat Aksit graduated from Aerospace Faculty of Istanbul Technical University in 1985. He received his MSc degree from Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Istanbul Technical University. He completed his PhD at Cranfield University, in England, in 1995. After worked for Ford of Turkey, he returned to Cranfield University, working as a post-doc between in 1998-2004. Then he returned to Turkey and worked for defense industry companies such as Roketsan, STM, and TEI. He joined İzmir University of Economics in September 2017. His research interest includes Turbulent Combustion, Turbulent Diffusion Flame, Emission Predictions, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics (Aerodynamics) and Internal Combustion Engines.

Fabrizio Pinto obtained his Laurea cum laude in physics from the University of Rome, "La Sapienza," in 1984 after receiving an Enrico Persico scholarship from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 1989, he received his Ph.D from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, U.S.A. with a Sigma-Xi award-winning dissertation on globular star cluster formation and the application of supercomputers to the gravitational N-body problem. After an early academic career in the U.S., in 1996, Dr. Pinto joined the Navigation and Flight Mechanics section of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena, California. He carried out pre-launch research in support of the Stardust and Deep Space 1 missions, and he was the orbit determination specialist during the Galileo orbiter E19 Europa flyby in 1999. He was a member of the JPL Interstellar Program identifying the core technologies necessary for future travel to extrasolar planetary systems. In 1999, Dr. Pinto left JPL to pursue market disruptive applications enabled by the manipulation of Casimir forces. As a California physicist entrepreneur, he obtained ten US patents, some of which have also issued in the EU and Japan, in the subfield referred to as dispersion force- or quantum vacuum-engineering. Between 2013 and 2017, he pursued an intense experimental R&D effort in this rapidly expanding field at Jazan University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Pinto is now focusing on advanced demonstrations of breakthrough dispersion force-enabled devices with applications in novel nanoparticle space propulsion, high density energy storage, nanorobots and nanooscillators, adaptive optics, and sensing involving membranes. His theoretical research also includes studies of the fundamental nature of the gravitational field. Dr. Pinto is a fixed wing private pilot with a multi-engine instrument rating.

Dr. Diaa Gadelmavla is a professor at the Izmir University of Economics(IUE). He received his Ph.D in astrophysics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2001. In his PhD research, he investigated theoretically the solar and stellar atmospheric heating by Magnetohydrodynamic waves. He spent 12 years at the University of Heidelberg and in industry (Arcor AG & DB-Telematic GMBH – Frankfurt, Germany) as a researcher and as a senior network engineer. He is the author of about 50 publications in international journals with more than 350 citations. His current research activities include solar, stellar heating and oscillations, antennas, RF energy harvesting and developing mm-waves based system components such as antennas, filters and amplifiers for 5G and 6G applications.