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Dr. Tanju Karanfil is the Vice President for Research and a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson University. He is a registered professional engineer in State of South Carolina, a Board Certified Environment Engineer by American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and a Fellow of International Water Association. He served as the Department Chair of Environmental Engineering and Earth Science (2008-2014) and the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and Science (2014-2016). Since February 2016, he is the Vice President for Research of Clemson University. He also serves as a consultant to water and wastewater utilities and consulting companies. Professor Karanfil's research interests are in the fundamentals and applications of physicochemical processes in natural and engineered environmental systems. His primary research is on adsorption and disinfection by-product (DBP) formation processes and technologies. He has published his findings in the premier journals of his field, Environmental Science and Technology, Water Research, Carbon, Journal of Colloid and Interface Sciences, and Journal of American Water Works Association. He has produced more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications with an h index of about 40 and over 250 other technical presentations, reports, extended abstracts, and publications. Professor Karanfil is a recipient of NSF CAREER award. He has also received several awards (e.g., CES McQueen Quattlebaum Faculty Achievement Award, Board of Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence) at Clemson University. He has mentored more than 80 graduate students, postdoctoral research associates and international visiting scholars. The results of his students’ research have been recognized with best Ph.D. thesis, best M.Sc. thesis, best paper, and best graduate student awards by American Water Works Association, Water Environment Federation and American Chemical Society. He served in the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of American Water Works Association.He has been acting as associate editor in editorial board of “Water Research” journal.

Education Information :
Post Doctorate, Cnr - Istituto Motori, Italy 2018 - 2018
Post Doctorate, Fransa Ulusal Bilimler Araştırma Merkezi Cnrs, Icare, France 2009 - 2009
Doctorate, Erciyes Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Makine, Turkey 2003 - 2009
Post Graduate, Erciyes Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Turkey 2001 - 2003
Under Graduate, Erciyes Üniversitesi, Makina Mühendisliği, Enerji, Turkey 1997 - 2001

Certificates, Courses and Trainings
Education Management and Planning, International Combustion Institute Summer School, International Combustion Institute Summer School, 2016
Education Management and Planning, 12. Exergy and Its Applications Summer Course,, Erciyes Üniversitesi Müh. Fak. Makine Müh., 2015
Other, PEM FUEL CELLS APPLICATION AND INTEGRATION, UNIDO-ICHET (international center for hydrogen energy
technologies), 2010

Dissertations
Doctorate, Hidrojen-Doğalgaz Karışımlarının İçten YanmalıMotorlarda Kullanılması, Erciyes Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Makine Mühendisliği, 2009
Post Graduate, Zorlanmış Yatay Akışa Maruz Kalan IsıÜretimli Silindirik Çubuklarda Taşınım ve İletimle Isı Transferinin Sayısal Analizi, Erciyes Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Makine Mühendisliği , 2003

Research Areas
Technical Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Energy, Renewable Energy Systems, Alternative Energy Resources, Thermodynamics, Fuels and Combustion, Internal Combustion Engines

Dr. Filiz Dadaser-Celik graduated from Environmental Engineering Dept. at Middle East Technical University in Turkey in 1999. She completed her Master’s in Business Administration at Erciyes University in Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in the Water Resources Science program at the University of Minnesota in USA in 2008. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Environmental Engineering Department at Erciyes University. Her research interests range from analysis and modeling of climatic and hydrologic systems to socio-economic analysis of water policies and water management practices. She is interested in human- and climate-induced changes in water resources and the use of GIS and remote sensing techniques in monitoring and modeling lakes and wetlands.

Professional Experience:
- Work as an Associate Professor at the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering (SREE) Department
at University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (February 2015-present). Served as the department associate
chair (2016-present).
- Work as an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Hashemite University,
Jordan (February 2006-August 2010)
• Research: Coordinator of the Functional Materials Group under the Center for Advanced Materials
Research (CAMR) and the Research Institute of Science and Engineering (RISE) of the
University of Sharjah (2015-present); Coordinator of the Multi-Purpose, Multi-Functional Workshop for research under RISE (2015-present)
Administration: - Associate Chair of the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department (2016-present)
- Acting dean for the college of engineering (summer 2015, summer 2018)

She is Professor at the department of Energy Systems Engineering, Erciyes University. She obtained her MsCdegree in 2002 from the department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Erciyes with a thesis on computational heat transfer in mixing process and her PhD degrees in 2008 from the same department with a thesis on transmutation of actinides and fission products in accelerator driven systems.In 2010, she was an academic visitor at the University of Bath. She studied on the heat transfer in porous mediums in Bath University. She has been teaching and supervised theses on renewable energy technologies, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and nuclear energy technologies. She frequently acts as member of scientific committees and as reviewer for journals. She has a lot of papers related with these subjects. She is married and she has a son and a daughter.

Shpetim Lajqi, born on 11.04.1977 in Kosovo. Graduate and Postgraduate studies has completed at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Prishtina, while Doctoral Study at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in University of Maribor, Slovenia in 2013. Dr. Lajqi is employed in University of Prishtina “HASAN PRISHTINA”, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo. He hold academic title Associate Professor. He has published 22 Original Papers, 24 Conference Proceeding Paper, 15 Professional Paper, and over 50 Professional Projects.
Currently, Dr. Lajqi works actively in Renewable Energy, Mechatronics of Vehicles and Engines, Transport devices, etc.

Dr. Nuray Ates graduated from Environmental Engineering at Selcuk University in 1996 (Konya, Turkey). She got her Master of Science degrees(MSc) in Environmental Engineering department at the same university in 1999. She received her Ph.D. in the Environmental Engineering at the Middle East Technical University in 2008 (Ankara, Turkey). She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson University in South Carolina, USA during 2011-2012. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Environmental Engineering Department at Erciyes University. Her primary research is on water and wastewater treatment processes and technologies. Dr. Ates has published many peer-reviewed journal papers related to water disinfection, disinfection by-product (DBP) formation, industrial wastewater treatment, adsorption, membrane treatment process.

Department of Physics, Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan
Research Interests & Experience;
-Synthesis of thin film materials using different deposition techniques.
- Experience on thin film deposition by thermal evaporation method.
- Experience on Thin film deposition by sputtering method.
- Study structural properties using X-ray Diffraction & Study structural phases by Raman Spectroscopy
- Optical characterization by using spectrophotometer.
- To study Photoconductivity response of semiconducting materials.
- Semiconductor materials conductivity type determination by hot probe technique.
- Fabrication of solar cells.
- Synthesis of biogenic materials