Biography:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sümer Şahin is now an adjoint Professor at Bahçeşehir University in İstanbul, Türkiye after he has been the Dean of Faculty of Engineering at the Near East University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur (MS) degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany) in 1967 and Doktor-Ingenieur (Ph.D.) degree in Mechanical Engineering at the same university in 1970. In the past, he worked as a Professor at ATILIM University (Ankara, Türkiye); Gazi University (Ankara, Türkiye); Erciyes University (Kayseri, Türkiye); King Saud University (Riyad, Saudi Arabia); as an Associate Professor at Ege University (İzmir, Türkiye) and Karadeniz Technical University (Trabzon, Türkiye); as an Advanced Research Scientist at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland); and as a NATO Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. In 1997, he worked at the Universität Innsbruck, (Innsbruck, Austria) as a Visiting Professor. In1987, he served as the President of the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and Vice-Chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development of the United Nations General Assembly (New York, USA).
He has published close to 170 scholarly papers in reputable journals and about 150 international conference papers on a wide array of topics in nuclear and solar energy; and also given Invited Talks and Seminars in 16 different countries around the globe. His research interests and activities cover Neutron Transport Theory, Nuclear Radiation Shielding, Thermionic Space Craft Reactors, and Space Craft Nuclear Propulsion, Fusion Technology, Fusion-Fission (Hybrid) Reactors, Nuclear Waste Transmutation, Alternative Fuels for CANDU Reactors, Accelerator Driven Systems, Non-proliferation and Concentrated Solar Power. He has, at different universities, given lectures on Nuclear Engineering, Reactor Physics, Modern Physics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Radiation Safety, Physical Aspects of the Energy Production, Nuclear Reactor Design, Fusion Technology and Heat Pipes in Turkish, English, French and German languages.