Prof. Figen Balo

She has received her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Firat University in Turkey. She worked at the Ministries of Environment-Urbanization and Education. She is currently working as a professor in the Engineering Faculty at Firat University. She has published 76 papers in scientific journals, 45 book chapters, 116 research papers in conferences and 2 projects. As reviewer, she reviewed more than 1740 articles for scholarly journals. As Editor, she completed 13 scientific books and also she has been actively serving as Area Editor for 6 different scientific journals. Her main research area includes renewable energy, renewable building-insulation materials, optimization of energy efficiency at buildings, MCDM for renewable energy systems, energy simulation of buildings and renewable energy systems.