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Kamil Kaygusuz
Country: Turkey
Year Started Research: 1986
Title of Research: Experimental Performance of the Solar Assisted Heat
Pumps
University: Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Chemistry
and Mechanical Engineering laboratuars
Still Active in Research: Yes

Professor Kamil Kaygusuz was born in 1963 Trabzon, Turkey. He started renewable energy research in April 1986
at the Karadeniz Technical University as MS student. He studied solar energy, solar assisted heat pump with PCM
energy storage for building heating at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Karadeniz Technical University,
Trabzon, Turkey. He obtained his PhD degree in April 1993. The subject of the PhD thesis is “Experimental
Performance of the Solar Assisted Heat Pumps with PCM Energy Storage for Building heating in Black Sea Region
of Turkey”. He published 240 scientific papers and five book chapters. He is currently researching about renewable
energy sources such as solar energy, biomass, hydropower, wind energy and geothermal power, heat pumps,
energy storage and energy policies. He was supervisor for 15 master and doctorate students in research area of
renewable energy. He has h-42 for Web of Science; h-46 for Scopus and h-53 for Google Scholar.

Ulrich Leibfried
Country: Germany
Year Started Research: 1980
Title of Research: Solar Collector with direct evaporation for a Rancine
cycle
University: University Karlsruhe (Germany) and INSA Lyon (France)
Still Active in Research: Yes

Ulrich Leibfried first activities in RE had been as student: internship in 1980 in a heat pump company who used
solar absorbers, courses in RE at University Karlsruhe (Germany) and INSA Lyon (France) and a study project in
Lyon on a solar collector with direct evaporation for a Rancine cycle. From 1986 to 1988, he worked in an institute
for appropriate technology for African and other southern countries with wind driven water pumps and others. In
1989 he started in the solar research company Bomin Solar in Lörrach, southern Germany as a project leader in
the development of a system with solar concentrator (Fix Focus), Stirling motor and thermochemical storage (Mg/
MgH2). During this time he graduated from University Karlsruhe (Optimization of a fixed focus solar concentrator
and a cavity receiver). In 1994 he co-founded the solar company Consolar GmbH in Lörrach and Frankfurt, Germany,
together with 3 other engineers. His main concern is the transition of technologies, economies and society to
a system respecting planetary boundaries and life. Currently he is engaged in a network which was initiated in
autumn 2019, working for climate neutral communities.

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