Dr. Akinoglu is a physicist in Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey. He is also affiliated by Earth System Science Department (ESS-METU) and also a member of GUNAM (Center for Solar Energy Research and Application-METU). Dr. Akinoglu is co-founder of ESS and ISES Turkish Branch. He is currently working on determining the countrywide solar irradiation prediction schemes, energy efficient houses, long and shor term PV module and array performance calculations, paleo estimation of solar irradiation, sustainable development and sustainable energy policy issues.