Research Developments in Sustainable Aviation

T. Hikmet Karakoc, Ph.D., graduated from Anadolu University, the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Yildiz Technical University. He received his Ph.D. from Anadolu University, where he started his full-time teaching and received his Full Professorship. He is currently researching at the Eskisehir Technical University. He has a wide range of research interests, including sustainable aviation, aircraft propulsion systems, insulation, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC), indoor air quality, gas turbines, cogeneration systems, renewable energy, energy economics, fuels, and combustion. He has participated in numerous industrial projects on these topics as a researcher, consultant, and project manager for over 30 projects and corporations. He also started a contest on special insulation applications among university students. He served as an Editor-in-Chief, guest editor, and editorial board member for international scientific journals. He published national and international papers in over 300 journals and 40 books. Professor Karakoc actively follows membership positions for the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers and many sectorial associations, international scientific organizations, and societies. He is an active Board of Directors member of the International Association for Green Energy. He is currently holding the presidency of the SARES organization, which is actively supporting scientists and students in the area of sustainable aviation. He also organizes four symposiums on aviation subject areas as a Founding Chair.

Siripong Atipan, Ph.D., received his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in 1994, he then joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Kasetsart University as a lecturer and was awarded a scholarship from the Royal Thai Government for his graduate study. Dr. Atipan received his M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, RMIT University, Australia, in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from RMIT University in 2002. Under the supervision of Tom Steiner, his doctoral research focused on delaying vortex breakdown by steady and periodic part-length leading-edge bowing. He returned to the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Kasetsart University in 2002, where he is an Assistant Professor and continues his work in aerodynamics, aircraft performance, and design.

Alper Dalkıran, Ph.D., received his bachelor's degree Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Eskisehir Technical University (formerly known as Anadolu University) from the Avionics Department. He completed his MSc degree in the School of Science from Anadolu University in 2004 in Aviation Maintenance. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 2017 in Environmental Sustainability on Airports from the School of Science at Anadolu University by developing a model of energy-based calculations of an aerodrome. Dr. Dalkıran has studied aircraft engines, sustainability, airports, and exergy. He has 17 years of professional experience in airports in information technology, automation, and integration. He has managed teams on system design, projects, tests, commissioning, operational readiness, and operations. He has been working in the School of Aviation at Suleyman Demirel University since 2019 and lecturing in flight theory, airline management, and airport design subjects.

Ali Haydar Ercan, Ph.D., received his bachelor's degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Cumhuriyet, Sivas, and his MSc degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Gazi, Ankara, where he studied heat transfer. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Aerodynamics, University of Liverpool, England, where he worked on boundary layer theory on flat plate surfaces and developed empiric formulas for transition development distance from the leading edge. He completed his Ph.D. in 1997. He also earned a Postgraduate degree in Software Technologies from the University of Liverpool in 1999. He worked at the University of Cumhuriyet as a lecturer, at the University of Liverpool as an Assistant Lecturer while studying for his Ph.D., at Ondokuz Mayıs University as Head of the Junior Aviation Technical School, where he was one of the department's founders. Dr. Ercan works as a Lecturer in the Department of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Electronics and Automation at Porsuk Vocational School at Eskisehir Technical University. He is also working on PIV (particle image velocimetry) related subjects and a new idea for wing design. He is a reviewer for four journals and a guest editor. He has held a wide range of managerial positions and has experience with international commercial private companies.

Navatasn Kongsamutr, Ph.D., works in the area of air transport management in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Kasetsart University. He earned a B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering from Kasetsart University, an MBA in Aviation Management from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Air Transport Management from Cranfield University. His areas of expertise cover air transport management, business model development, strategic planning and management, and policy, strategy, and competition analysis. Dr. Kongsamutr has conducted research and consulting work at both the national and corporate levels, including a strategic plan for the Royal Thai Government's Ministry of Transport, a national commercial airport master plan for the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand, and the development of an aviation market intelligence system for Airports of Thailand PLC.

Vis Sripawadkul is a Lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Kasetsart University, where he is primarily involved in aircraft design and optimization work. His areas of interest include airport engineering, and he is currently working as a consultant on several projects. He earned a B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering from Kasetsart University, an MSc in Computational Mechanics from Technical University Munich, and an MPhil in Engineering Design from Cranfield University.