Prof. Dr. HAKAN ERTÜRK

Dr. Hakan Ertürk is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, where he directs the Thermal and Energy Systems Laboratory.  Prior to joining METU, he served as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.  

Dr. Ertürk received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, working on inverse design and control of high temperature process furnaces with Prof. Jack Howell.  Before transitioning to academia, Dr. Ertürk worked for Intel Corporation in Chandler, Arizona as a Senior Packaging Engineer where he focused on developing next generation thermal management technologies such as single / two phase cooling, thermo-electric integrated heat sinks and packages, phase change spreaders for mostly high performance computing, and also on  heat spreading and / or piezo-fan based cooling systems for mobile and handheld devices. 

Dr . Ertürk’s research bridges the gap between fundamental thermal sciences and practical applications with expertise in heat transfer, radiative transfer, optics and light scattering, applied to design and optimization of thermal, optical and energy systems, thermal packaging and management of opto-electronic devices, and inverse problems in thermal sciences. Recently, his research group has been working on developing technologies that utilizes particulate systems, such as band selective coatings, composite materials or engineered fluids.  His research focuses on manufacturing and characterization methods, multi-scale modeling, and developing novel technologies for energy harvesting, agriculture, building thermal management, and aerospace applications. 

Dr. Ertürk has supervised more than 25 MS and PhD students, authored/co-authored more than 90 peer reviewed papers, several chapters in edited handbooks published by Elsevier, McGraw Hill and Springer, and has more than 10 issued US and international patents.

Dr. Ertürk is currently serving as an Editor for International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer that is a SCI-Q1 journal published by Elsevier.