Aliihsan KOCA is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering, Istanbul Technical University. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Yıldız Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Technics program in 2009 and 2015, respectively. He received his M.Sc. Degree from Istanbul Technical University, Mechanical Engineering Department thermo-fluid program in 2011. He worked at Michigan Technological University (USA) as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on next-generation thermal systems. He has almost 15 years of professional experience in the energy field and in mechanical engineering. He has taken part in lots of national/international research and many demonstration projects in the industry as project manager/researcher, and has carried out several projects funded by the European Commission, the National Science Foundation USA, and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. He has 50 academic research papers and 5 patent applications. Heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, modern thermal systems, computational fluid dynamics, and project management are among his fields of basic research.