Committee Members

Biography

Dr. Addisalem Bitew has completed her BSc. in Civil engineering from Bahir Dar
University, Ethiopia in 2005 and her MSc. in Hydro-Informatics and Water Management
in 2009. The master program was a joint European master program given by seven
universities from which she have joined her 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semester at the
University of Catalonia, Spain; University of Newcastle, UK; Brandenburg Technical
University of Cottbus, Germany; and University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
respectively. Thereafter, she has obtained a PhD degree in Geohydromodelling in 2013
from the University of Kiel, Germany.
Dr. Addisalem has been working as a Lecturer for two years at civil engineering
department of Bahir Dar University directly after she completed her bachelor degree. She
has been also working as a Researcher in the areas of numerical model development and
simulations of multiphase-multicomponent systems, code development and climate
change impacts and mitigation options for six years at the University of Kiel, Germany.
Her researches and scientific investigations have been published in various peer reviewed
journals and conference proceedings. She has a wide experience in hydro-informatics and
numerical simulation of multiphase fluid flow process, and also on the assessment of
reservoir effects. Currently, she is working as an Executive officer of Civil Informatics
process at Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation.

Biography

Dr. Pejman Kazempoor is the Director of the Energy Sustainability Laboratory at OU. Prior to his employment with OU, Dr. Kazempoor had worked in research and development for Baker Hughes, and the GE Global Research where he was responsible for driving innovative research and development activities and taking early-stage technologies from the conceptual stage to full commercialization with the business units. He also spent time in the academia as a researcher at Colorado School of Mines,  the Max Planck Institute and EMPA- Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. Dr. Kazempoor is the recipient of BHGE’s 2018 Technology Excellence Award, and Associate Editor for Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering-Elsevier. He also published more than 50 papers in various national and international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including a book chapter. Dr. Kazempoor’s innovative experience is also highlighted by several patent applications.

Biography

Professor Wang enjoys a strong record in research fields including thermodynamics, cooling engineering, desalination and utilization of renewable energy. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and member of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies. He won the DAAD visiting fellowship by DAAD Germany in 2003 and Ludwig Mond Prize 2005, by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) of United Kingdom. He won the Australian China Young Scientist Exchange Program award in 2009 and the Australian Japan Emerging Research Leader Program award in 2016 by the Australia Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). He received “Dean’s Award” for outstanding research performance in 2016. He was named as Field Leader in thermal science by the Australian Research Magazine in 2018. He is Associate Editor of IMechE Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering and Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Guest editor of Applied Sciences and editorial board member for five international journals.

Biography

Firat Emir is Assistant Prof. Dr. at Bahcesehir Cyprus University. He is an Eastern Mediterranean University (CY) alumn. He completed his MS and PhD degree at the EMU in the field of Energy and Environmental Economics. He is specializing on small island economics, renewable energy and energy and environment issues. He regularly publishes empirical articles in the areas of macroeconomics, econometrics and energy and environmental economics. He likes hand carving, enjoys nature walking and reading economic journals.