Hakan Çalışkan Editor

Dr. Roshan Raman is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NorthCap University since July 2017. He completed his Ph.D. in alternative fuels and IC engines from Delhi Technological University (previously DCE). He has more than 9 years of teaching and research experience. He is a Member of the SAE and ASME professional society. His areas of interest are thermal engineering, IC engines, alternative fuels, HMT, RAC and renewable energy. He has supervised 1 M. Tech and 15 B.Tech. theses in various domains of mechanical engineering. He is Editor in various journals such as Heat Engines (specialty section of Frontiers in Thermal Engineering), Frontiers in Energy Research (SCIE), Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering (SCIE), International Journal of Transportation Engineering and Technology (IJTET), and International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD). Professor Dr. Hakan Çalışkan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Usak University in Turkey. He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics) at Pamukkale, Eskisehir Osmangazi, and Ege Universities in Turkey, respectively. He worked as a Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering of Kyung Hee University in Republic of Korea, as a Professor in the Teikyo University in Japan, and as a Researcher in University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Ontario Tech University) in Canada. He is an Assistant Editor/Guest Editor/Editorial Board member of 16 international journals. He is an editorial board member in 11 international journals and an active reviewer in more than 30. He established Usak University Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ENÇES) Application and Research Center and also contributed to postgraduate education activities by establishing the Department of Energy and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Zafar Said is an Associate Professor with the Department of Sustainable Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, UAE. He also serves as coordinator of the Functional Nanomaterials Synthesis Lab. Dr. Said completed his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Masdar Institute, UAE, where he has also worked on industrial collaborative projects. Dr. Said works on renewable energy, energy and exergy analysis, solar energy, heat transfer, and nanofluids. He has published over 180 papers, 2 books, 20 book chapters, and 26 conference papers, with more than 15,000 citations, and was also ranked in the World's Top 2% Scientists in 2022, 2021 and 2020 by Elsevier and Stanford University in the field of Energy. He is ranked in the top 100 scientists in the United Arab Emirates and has secured more than 2 million AED in research grants. He has been honoured with several prestigious awards and is also serving as Editorial Board Member for several ISI Journals, as well as Guest Editor for several special issues.