M. Pinar Mengüç received his BS and MS from ODTU/METU in Ankara, Turkey, and his PhD from Purdue University, USA in 1985. He joined the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in 1985. He was a visiting professor at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, in 1991, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the 1998–1999 academic year, and at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2022. At the end of 2008, he was promoted to Engineering Alumni Association Chair Professor at the University of Kentucky, which he held until 2021. In 2009, he joined Özyeğin University, Istanbul, as the founding Head of Mechanical Engineering. The same year, he established the Center for Energy, Environment, and Economy (CEEE/EÇEM), which he still directs. His research areas include radiative transfer, nano-scale transport phenomena, applied optics, and sustainable energy applications. He is an elected member of the Science Academy of Turkey, a fellow of both ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineering) and ICHMT (International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer), and a Senior Member of OSA (Optical Society of America). He has been one of the Editors-in-Chief of Elsevier's Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT) since 2006. He received the 2018 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award and the 2020 Purdue Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Award. In April 2022, he was named FIBA Renewable Energy Endowed (FYE) Chair Professor at Özyeğin University.