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Nilufer Egrican
Country: Turkey
Year Started Research: 1975
Title of Research: A Thermodynamic and Heat Transfer Analysis of
Solar Absorption Air-Conditioning Cycle
University: University of Maryland
Still Active in Research: Yes

Prof. Dr. A. Nilufer Egrican began her work in solar energy in 1975 at the University of Maryland when she did
research on solar powered absorption cooling and on solar powered Rankine engines for solar cooling. From that
time on, Dr. Egrican continued to work in the area of applied thermodynamics as it relates to solar thermal systems,
such as passive solar heating, solar water and space heating. In 1982, Dr. Egrican began a teaching career at the
Technical University of Istanbul where she rose from Assistant Professor to Dean of Engineering. Dr. Egrican then
became a Professor and Rector of the Yeditepe University until she retired in 2011. During her tenure at these
universities, Dr. Egrican advised many students who went on to careers in solar energy, she published a large number
of research papers and made many presentations related to the thermodynamics of solar heating and cooling. Dr.
Egrican formed a consulting company, Suntek International, where she continues to work on solar energy projects.
Dr. Egrican is also very active in international associations and journals. She is President of the International Center
for Applied Thermodynamics and is Editor of the International Journal of Applied Thermodynamics.

Keith Garzoli (Deceased)

Country: Australia
Year Started Research: 1975
Title of Research: Horticultural Greenhouse Technologies
University: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO)
Still Active in Research: No

From 1975, Dr Garzoli worked in Energy Research and related engineering technologies, firstly in the CSIRO
and, for his last 12 years, in a part-time capacity, at the Australian National University. During his time at CSIRO
he carried out extensive research into solar and renewable energy technologies and energy conservation
technologies for buildings of all kinds. His Master’s degree and Doctorate were both in these fields. He was
awarded the International Horticultural Congress trust Award in 1982 and a Winston Churchill Memorial
Fellowship in 1985. By the time he left CSIRO in 1989, he was Principal Research Scientist and Project Leader
for CSIRO’s Greenhouse Technologies project. In 1989, Dr Garzoli worked with the Energy Research Centre
(ERC) at the Australian National University, and for 7 years he was Deputy Head of the ERC. Some of his
research was in refrigeration and heat pump technology, renewable energy, energy conservation and energy
storage. He continued to be involved in greenhouse technology, in particular in climate control and energy
efficiency in greenhouse design and environment management, in geothermal heat pump technology, and in
energy storage, using Phase Change Materials. He was chairman of the International Society for Horticultural
Science for 8 years and was an accredited Energy Auditor during the life of the Commonwealth Government’s
Enterprise Energy Audit Program. Dr Garzoli succumbed to throat cancer late in 2010.

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