2nd SY Award

AHMET FAHRİ YİĞİTBAŞI

President

After studying Mechanical Engineering at Aachen Technical University in Germany and completing his master’s degree in Fuel Engineering department, he started his career at Union Kraftstoff in 1987. He acted as the Deputy CEO, and then as the CEO of Botaş Packaging Industries Inc. between 1990 and 1996. He was the Vice President and President at Yaşar Holding Paints and Chemical Industries Group between 1996-2015.

He has been serving as the President of Yaşar University Board of Trustees since 2010 and Executive Board Member of Dyo Paints Incorporation and as the Vice-President of the Executive Board Member of Desa Energy Inc. since 2015. He worked as a founding Board Member at the Turkish Association of Paint Industry, and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2007-2009 and 2017-2019.

Ahmet Fahri Yiğitbaşı is also a member of Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) and Aegean Industry and Business Association (ESİAD).

PROF.DR. AHMET EVİN

Member

Prof.Dr. Ahmet Evin received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of English Language and Literature at Columbia University in 1966. Having received the William Mitchell Fellow title at Columbia University in the same year, Evin completed his PhD program on Middle East Studies and Cultural History in 1973.

Ahmet Evin has currently been serving as a Senior Expert at İstanbul Policy Center, a Professor of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University, and a member of Jean Monet Chair. Prof. Evin, who is the founding dean of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, lectured at New York University, Harvard University, Hacettepe University, University of Pennsylvania (he also served as the Head of Middle East Department of this University), Hamburg University and Bilkent University (served as the Head of Department of Political Sciences) before his post at Sabancı University.
Today, Ahmet Evin works on topics like Extension of the European Union, the significance of such a process for Turkey and the surrounding region and its impact on transatlantic relations.

Prof.Dr. Gürbüz GÜNEŞ

Member

Prof.Dr. Gürbüz GÜNEŞ graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU) Department of Food Engineering in 1993. He received his post graduate degree in 1997 and PhD in 2001 from Cornell University in USA.

After serving as an assistant professor and associate professor at İstanbul Technical University (ITU), he was appointed as a professor to İTU in 2013 and still continues his duty since then. Prof.Dr. GÜNEŞ was assigned as the TÜBİTAK Institute Manager between 2012-2014 and as the Department Head of İTU Food Engineering between 2014-2018.
Prof.Dr. GÜNEŞ, who has still been doing research on subjects like food technologies, food hygiene and production, basic processes, food packaging etc. has many national and international academic publications.

Prof.Dr. Arif HEPBAŞLI

Member

He was born in İzmir in 1958. He has been dealing with energy-related issues for 40 years, including experience in industrial companies for 10 years and as an academic member in different universities either in Turkey or abroad (also as a research assistant for 5 years prior to industry-experience). He is the author/co-author of more than 665 scientific publications (more than 320 of which are published in journals scanned in SCI). His academic footprint (h-index) is 66 and citation number is 12,709 in the category of Web of Science (WOS) and his h-index is 86 (23,253 citation) in Google Academic and it is 69 (15,724 citation) in Scopus as of 20 November 2022. Being a member of International Advisory Board of prestigious scientific journals, he is also reviewer of many national and international journals and projects related to energy. In addition to being a member of the Energy Working Group of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) since 2017, he was elected as a full member of TÜBA in 2019

Prof.Dr. Banu ONARAL

Member

Prof. Dr. Banu ONARAL is the founding Dean of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Sciences and Health Systems at Drexel University and a professor of the H.H. Sun Chair. She received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and BSEE (1973) and MSEE (1974) degrees in Electrical Engineering respectively from Bosporus University. As of 1979, she served Drexel University as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and has been a member of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. Between 1980-81 and 1987-88, she served twice as a visiting lecturer at Bosporus University. In 1998, she participated in the foundation of the first interdisciplinary faculty, which is the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Sciences and Health Systems. As of January 2015, she has been working as Rectorate Consultant of ‘Global Innovation Partnerships’.

Prof. Dr. Banu Onaral, one of the world’s first biomedical engineers, states that biomedical engineering is a profession that will lay the basis of the new industry.