Prof. Dr. Kasim OCAKOGLU

Department of Engineering Fundamental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering,

Tarsus University, 33400, Tarsus, Türkiye.

Email: kasim.ocakoglu@tarsus.edu.tr

http://abs.tarsus.edu.tr/kasim.ocakoglu

http://lab.tarsus.edu.tr/fma/tr

Prof. Dr. Kasim Ocakoglu received his BSc with an “Honours Degree” from the Science Faculty of Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye in 1998. He received his MSc in 2002 in the field of transition metal-carbene complexes in Inorganic Chemistry. He got his PhD from Ege University, Institute of Solar Energy, Izmir in 2006 on the development of materials that can be used in Dye-Based Solar Cells, battery construction and characterization, with the thesis entitled "The synthesis of organometallic photosensors and photo-organic chemical studies". During his PhD, he studied at the Imperial College London, Chemistry Department, Molecular Electronics under the guidance of Prof. Dr. James R. Durrant with the support of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TUBITAK) - Scientist Training Grant. In this period, he worked on the investigation of the electron transfer dynamics of dye-sensitized solar cells by using transient absorption spectroscopy. He did Postdoc studies on Artificial Photosynthesis at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry (current name: the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion), Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany) between 2008 - 2010 under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Alfred R. Holzwarth with the support of The Volkswagen Foundation. After the postdoctoral term, he joined the Department of Energy Systems Engineering at Mersin University, Türkiye. He worked as the director of the Advanced Technology Education, Research and Application Center of Mersin University, and subsequently the director of the Mersin Technology Transfer Office during the period 2014-2018. Prof. Ocakoglu, who has been involved as a manager, researcher or consultant in many national and international projects, served on the Call Program Advisory Board of TUBITAK Engineering Research Support Group between 2017 and 2020. He is currently working as a full professor at the Department of Engineering Fundamental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Tarsus University, Türkiye.

Most of his research focuses on materials chemistry and thin-film technologies. Organic/inorganic photovoltaics, bio-photovoltaics, artificial photosynthesis, graphene, MXenes, molecular wires, nano-porous materials, nanoparticles-nanotubes, electronic nanodevices, supercapacitors, fuel additives, and photodynamic therapy are among the current research topics. Number of publication >200, Google Scholar h-index: 31, i10-index: 99, >4100 citations