1. Education:

Master Thesis Title:

Title: Maximizing Renewable Energy Utilization in North Cyprus

PhD Thesis Title:

Title: Transition to Electric Vehicles with an Environmental and Cost Perspective in Islands

2. Employment History:

3. Administrative & Professional Duties:

• Cyprus Turkish Energy Efficieny Association – Board Member (2021-2023)
• Cyprus Turkish Energy Efficieny Association – Comity Member (2023-…)
• Vice President of Chamber of Electrical Engineers Electric Vehicles Committee | 2018 – Present

4. Publications
5. Indexed Papers (SCI & SSCI & Arts and Humanities)

A1.  Hastunç, M., Karahüseyin, A1. T., & Abbasoğlu, S. (2023). The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the electricity production in Northern Cyprus under increasing installed photovoltaic capacity. Electric Power Systems Research, 215, 109023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2022.109023

A2.  Hastunç, M., Şenol, M. & Abbasoğlu, S. (2024) Comparison of Electric and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles from an Economical Perspective in Developing Islands.  Transportation Research Record.

1. National Conference Papers (Proceedings)

B1. Hastunç, M. and Tekbiyik-Ersoy, N., 2018. Optimizing Residential Renewable Energy Utilization in North Cyprus: Case Study of Solar Energy. no. May, p.9. “Renewable Energy Sources”

B2. Mohamad, A., Hastunç, M. and Abid, M., 2018 Thermodynamic analysis of a Hybrid Solar-Wind power plant in Lebanon- A case study for Deir Ammar El Baddawi. 8th. International 100% Renewable Energy Conference.

5.      Academic Community Involvement

• Greenmetric World Rankings assistance in data collection
• Organizing Committee member in Renewable Energy Summit- 21.10.22
• 1^st National Energy Efficiency Workshop – Energy Efficiency in the Transportation sector – 16.12.2021
• PVSOL application – English-Turkish translation

• Data collection of PV power plant in Cyprus International University

6. Certificates:

• Photovoltaic expert in basics and mounting DGS,BERLIN – 05.2015
• First IEEE PES Student Congress METU, ANKARA – 08.2014
• Certificate of Participation at the 5^th International Project and Construction Management Conference (IPCM2018) |16-18 November 2018
• Certificate of Participation at the 8^th International Renewable Energy Conference, Istanbul, Turkey| 8 May 2018
• Certificate of Presentation at the 16^th International Conference on Clean Energy (ICCE- 2018), Famagusta, North Cyprus | May 9-11 2018
• UI GREENMETRIC world rankings 7th virtual workshop | 2020-2021
• UI GREENMETRIC 6th virtual workshop | 2019-2020

7. Research Areas

• Electric Vehicles
• Renewable Energy Sources
• Energy Modeling and Simulation
• Energy Efficiency
• Sustainability