Prof. Dr. M. Pinar Mengüç obtained his BS and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, Indiana, USA in 1985. He joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky the same year as an assistant professor, and was promoted to the ranks of associate and full professor in 1988 and 1993, respectively. In 2006, he was recognized as an Honorary Professor at ESPOL (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral), Guayaquil, Ecuador. Prof. Dr. Mengüç was a visiting professor at the Universita degli Studi "Federico II," in Napoli, Italy in 1991, and at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University in Boston during the 1998-1999 academic year. He served as the coordinator of the Umbrella Program on Nano-Scale Engineering (UPoN) and the director of the Nano-Scale Engineering Certificate Program at the University of Kentucky. In 2008, he was named as the Engineering Alumni Association Professor at the University of Kentucky. Prof. Dr. Mengüç has five assigned and two pending patents. He has authored/coauthored more than 120 international refereed journal articles, more than 170 conference papers, more than 100 international invited/keynote speeches, and two books. To date, he has guided more than 50 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows. Since early 2009 he has been at Ozyegin University in Istanbul as the Head of Mechanical Engineering Program and the Founding Director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Economy. As of 2017, he has been managing three large-scale European Union projects at the CEEE.

Radiative heat transfer; nanoscale transport phenomena; applied optics; energy conservation and innovations in buildings.