International Combustion Symposium

Prof Kahraman is head of Astronautical Engineering Faculty Of Aeronautics And Astronautics at the University Of Erciyes. Before joining Astronautical Engineering, he was the director of Mustafa Cikrikcioglu Vocaional College. Prof Kahraman received his M.Sc and Ph.D. from Erciyes University, 1987,1992 respectively.Since 1984 he worked at Erciyes university as an Assistant, Asst Prof., Assoc. Prof and Professor. Prof Kahraman has supervised postgraduate research students (12 MSc and 3 PhD) to successful completion.
Prof Kahraman has published approx 100 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and international conferences, in addition to more than 3 book chapters. He was conducted more than 15 international and national Project including 2 EU and one UNİDO Project. Prof Kahraman has patented 1 innovative invention. Prof Kahraman has been found as a visitor researcher at University of Nevada Reno( UNR ) and Penn State University College Park .

Prof. Dr. Ali Cemal Benim received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the Bogazici University, and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Stuttgart.
The topic of his PhD Thesis was Finite Element Modeling of Turbulent Flames, which was awarded by Degree of Distinction.
Subsequently, he joined ABB Turbo Systems in Switzerland.
He was the manager of the group Computational Flow and Combustion Modeling.
Currently, he is a Professor for Energy Technology at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, leading the Center of Flow Simulation (CFS).
He authored and co-authored over 250 publications in various fields of application including the finite element, finite analytic, lattice Boltzmann methods,
Navier-Stokes solution techniques, turbulence, combustion/gasification, two-phase flows, heat transfer, erosion, turbomachinery, aerodynamics, biofluid dynamics.
He is the Executive Editor of Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics and has editorial positions in a number of further journals along with his organizational activities in many conferences.

Professor Soyhan is a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sakarya University since 1992. He received his BEng (1992), MSc (1995) and PhD (2000) from Istanbul Technical University and did post-doctoral research in chemical kinetics at the Combustion Physics Division, Lund University, Sweden and on HCCI engines and chemical kinetics at Shell Global Solutions, Chester, UK. Currently, he is working on fuels and combustion studies in transport. He is the Head of Local Energy Research Association and head of the Combustion Institute, Turkey. Professor Soyhan is a member of the Turkish Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an associate member of TUBITAK USETEG Committee on R&D projects of Transportation, Defence and Energy Technologies Group.

Professor Mustafa Ilbas is a member of the Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Gazi University since 2011. He received his B.Eng (1988) and M.Sc (1991) from Erciyes University and PhD (1997) from  University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK and did post-doctoral research in combustion of hydrogen blended fuels at the Combustion lab, Cardiff, UK.. Currently, he is working on fuels and combustion studies in industrial systems and hydrogen fuel cells. After graduating from Erciyes University, he became a faculty member at the same university in 1989. Prof Ilbas worked at Erciyes university as a Reserach Assistant, Asst Prof., Assoc. Prof and Professor. Prof Ilbas has published approx 185 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and international conferences, in addition to more than 2 book chapters His publications include a variety of efforts to understand combustion, emissions and fuels, hydrogen blended fuels and hydrogen fuel cells. He has supervised postgraduate research students (18 MSc and 8 PhD) to successful completion. He has conducted more than 15 Reserach Projects including 4 TUBITAK Projects. Prof Ilbas has patented 1 innovative invention about combustion and burners. Prof Ilbas has been as a visitor researcher and joint education program attendant at Cardiff University, UK and University of Florida (UF) USA in 2005 and 2016 respectively. Currently Prof. Ilbas is the vice head of the Combustion Institute, Turkey and founding chief editör of International Journal of Energy Studies. He is the former president of Kayseri branch and member of the Turkish Society of Mechanical Engineers, He is also former head of the department of Energy Systems Engineering,
founding dean of the faculty of technology, Gazi University and founding vice rector of Bozok University.

Prof Kahraman is head of Astronautical Engineering Faculty Of Aeronautics And Astronautics at the University Of Erciyes. Before joining Astronautical Engineering, he was the director of Mustafa Cikrikcioglu Vocaional College. Prof Kahraman received his M.Sc and Ph.D. from Erciyes University, 1987,1992 respectively.Since 1984 he worked at Erciyes university as an Assistant, Asst Prof., Assoc. Prof and Professor. Prof Kahraman has supervised postgraduate research students (12 MSc and 3 PhD) to successful completion.

Prof Kahraman has published approx 100 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and international conferences, in addition to more than 3 book chapters. He was conducted more than 15 international and national Project including 2 EU and one UNİDO Project. Prof Kahraman has patented 1 innovative invention. Prof Kahraman has been found as a visitor researcher at University of Nevada Reno( UNR ) and Penn State University College Park .

Prof. Sürmen received BS and Ms degrees from Mechanical Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University in 1978 and 1981 respectively. Then he studied flame stabilization problem in continuous combustion chambers for fulfillment of Ph.D. Degree at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of İTÜ in 1986. In 1987-1988 he has been at University of Bath in England for a post-doc. research on mixing of diesel fuel jets into swirling mosphere. Prof. Sürmen, as a visiting staff, lectured Internal Combustion Engines and Gas Turbine Theory between 2004-2006 at King Abdulaziz University in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Formerly he is a member and Head of Automotive Engineering Department of Engineering Faculty, Bursa Uludag niversity, Bursa.

Dr. İskender Gökalp received his Aeronautical Engineering degree from the Istanbul Technical University (1974) and a PhD on Combustion (1981) from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris). He was assistant professor at the Faculty of Mechanics of this university (1979-1983); he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in October 1983. In 2003, he became the Director of the Laboratory of Combustion and Reactive Systems in Orleans. In 2007, he founded and directed the Institute of Combustion, Aerothermal Sciences, Reactivity and Environment (ICARE). In 2011, he founded the French Centre of Excellence on Chemical Kinetics and Aerothermodynamics of Clean and Safe Energy and Propulsion Systems; he directed both Centres until November 2016.
His main research domains concern chemical energy conversion for energy generation and aerospace propulsion. He supervised 70 PhDs in combustion and related domains at the University of Orléans. He was the President of the Federation of the European Sections of the Combustion Institute (2001-2014). Presently, he is an Emeritus research director at ICARE-CNRS, Orléans.
In December 2019 he started a research professorship at the Middle East Technical University. This position is supported by the TÜBITAK International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Program. In February 2022, he was nominated as the principal advisor to the Director of TÜBİTAK-MAM.
He is the CEO of the company IGDEAS Energy and Defence Technologies A.Ş., located at the METU TechnoPark in Ankara.
He received the French distinction “Chevalier des Palmes Académiques (2006) and the Boris Gelfand Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2014). He is Fellow of the International Combustion Institute (2018).

Prof. Dr. Ali Cemal Benim received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the Bogazici University, and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Stuttgart.
The topic of his PhD Thesis was Finite Element Modeling of Turbulent Flames, which was awarded by Degree of Distinction.
Subsequently, he joined ABB Turbo Systems in Switzerland.
He was the manager of the group Computational Flow and Combustion Modeling.
Currently, he is a Professor for Energy Technology at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, leading the Center of Flow Simulation (CFS).
He authored and co-authored over 250 publications in various fields of application including the finite element, finite analytic, lattice Boltzmann methods,
Navier-Stokes solution techniques, turbulence, combustion/gasification, two-phase flows, heat transfer, erosion, turbomachinery, aerodynamics, biofluid dynamics.
He is the Executive Editor of Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics and has editorial positions in a number of further journals along with his organizational activities in many conferences.

Dr. Aliya Fazal is an Environmental Chemist and has more than 13 years of teaching as well as research experience. She is chairperson of the Department of Chemistry of Fatima Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi Pakistan from where she obtained her PhD degree in the field of
Environmental Sciences. Dr. Aliya has presented her research work in many international conferences and published research articles in diverse fields. Her research interests are metal nanoparticles synthesis & applications, biofuel production, GLOF risk mapping, and waste water
treatment. Current research pursuits are desulfurization of fossil fuel, dye sensitized solar cells, deep eutectic solvents synthesis and applications.

Dr. Mohammad Rafiq Khan did his M. Sc. from Punjab University in 1961. After teaching in different Government Colleges, he was transferred to Government College Lahore in 1967 from where he went to Strathclyde University Glasgow in 1973 and earned his PhD there in 1976. Soon after submission of his PhD Thesis, he was appointed as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join a Team working on a Pilot Project,” Choice of Technique in Less Developed Countries” that constituted an Interface between Technology and Economics. He returned in 1978 to resume in GC where he spent overall 26 years of his active career. He has to his credit 55years teaching and research experience in Chemistry and about 15 years in Management Sciences. Since, 2004, he is in Lahore School of Economics in the capacity of Senior Research Fellow/Professor of Environmental Sciences and is actively involved in research focused on critical national and international problems including Energy, Environment and Pakistan Economy with high recognition at both national and international level and teaching up to M. Phil level. He has published around 150 research papers in internationally abstracted journals/SI journals and conference proceedings and is author of 20 published books with four in Press (Half at the University Level including one by Scottish Academic Press in 1985 on choice of technique in the Developing Countries and other by Lambert Academic Publishing Germany in 2010 on Appropriate Social Science Projects for the Developing Countries). He and his two supervised students won two first prizes in two consecutive years 2006 and 2007 in the International Case Competitions held by the Amity University Business School considered as one of the toughest competitions of its own nature. Education Expo(tv) NOIDA UP India, after an International competition of research credentials of scholars all over the World, conferred upon him the “Excellence in Research Award Science and Technology 2014” in a ceremony organized in Bangalore on June 21, 2014 and he was the choice to address the ceremony on direction of future research for the proper appropriate development in the developing countries. Apart from his extensive contribution to science and technology he is a highly recognized poet and writer in Urdu and Punjabi. To sum up there are encountered many extremes in his career which merge into one that is extreme versatility.

Nezihe Ayas is a doctor of chemical engineering, professor at Eskisehir Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering. She is chief of Chemical Engineering Department and Head of Unit operations and Thermodynamics Division. Prof.AYAS supervise her research group in the field of catalyst synthesis for hydrogen production from biomass gasification, steam reforming of natural gas, utilization of CO2, biodiesel, Fuelcell. She supervised number of MSc and PhD student and 7 PhD student and 2 MSc students are curently doing resarch under her supervise. She is an author and a co-author of a number of publications related renewable energy such as biodiesel, hydrogen from biomass in supercritical water gasification, catalyst synthesis and characterization. She teaches students in the fields of: Thermodynamics, Mass Transfer, Hydrojen From Biomass, and others.